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Basic Info

First Air: May 13, 2018

Rating: ⭐ 4.0/10 (4 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

Last Episode

Name: Episode 2

Season: 1, Episode: 2

Air Date: 2018-05-20

Runtime: 45 min

For around 400,000 years Neanderthals live and thrived right across Europe and Western Europe. But about 40,000 years ago they disappeared. In this second episode in the series, Ella Al-Shamahi - with the help of Hollywood actor Andy Serkis - explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct, and discovering how they live on inside of us today.

Videos

Official Trailer | Neanderthal | PBS (YouTube)

Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

2018 1 seasons 2 episodes ⭐ 4.0/10 4 votes

Overview

According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the DNA of most people is of Neanderthal origin—and it continues to affect us today. Ella Al-Shamahi enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to investigate Neanderthals.