The Incredible Human Journey Episode 4 Australia (BBC)

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Broadcast (2010) Alice looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that humans reached Australia almost before anywhere else. How could they have travelled so far from Africa, crossing the open sea on the way, and do it thousands of years before they made it to Europe?

The evidence trail is faint and difficult to pick up, but Alice takes on the challenge. In India, new discoveries among the debris of a super volcano hint that our species started the journey much earlier than previously thought, while in Malaysia, genetics points to an ancient trail still detectable in the DNA of tribes today. Alice travels deep into the Asian rainforests in search of the first cavemen of Borneo and tests out a Stone Age raft to see whether sea travel would have been possible thousands of years ago, before coming to a powerful conclusion.

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.

How did we get here? Following a trail of clues from the latest scientific research. Dr Alice Roberts re-traces the greatest ever journey taken by our ancestors, she travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how early humans left Africa to colonise the world.

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[Kayavod]

Breathtaking.

[watchWorld100]

we have a tribe here in the philippines that looks like this ancient tribe of malaysia. even darker and kinkier hair than them. they really look like african. our tribe is called aetas.

[watchWorld100]

this woman is beautiful.

[greenghost2008]

OMG wheel is on right side...lol

[wasdom01]

Thanks for the upload.

[greenghost2008]

WE ARE THE MASTER RACE. THE HUMAN RACE. WOOT lawls



[stendak]

@mikieginokc1 I also wonder

[stendak]

Around 54min i heard Tuvan throat singing, i guess it sounds enough like a didgeridoo.

[mikieginokc1]

Did they ever explain what they found with the genetic testing. Seems they collected the samples then made a raft to float away. Did I miss something or are there more programs to come.