The Incredible Human Journey

Name: The Incredible Human Journey
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Alice Roberts, Tessa Wojtczak, Kyle Brown, Raj Ramesar, Jeffrey Rose

Follow in the footsteps of our ancestors and discover how the first humans became you.

The Incredible Human Journey (2009)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 5

Episode runtime: 60 min

Documentary

United Kingdom

BBC Two

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Series poster "The Incredible Human Journey"

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Production

BBC

Premiere

10 May 2009

Last episode

14 June 2009

Status

Completed

Creators

Michael Mosley

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Actors

Alice Roberts

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Tessa Wojtczak

Narrator (voice)

Kyle Brown

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Raj Ramesar

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Jeffrey Rose

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Xinzhi Wu

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Jin Li

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Bruce Bradley

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Short description

There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.