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# The Incredible Human Journey [DVD] [2009]

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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. Thousands of years ago one small group of our species, Homo sapiens, crossed out of Africa and into the unknown. Their descendants faced baking deserts, sweat-soaked jungles and frozen wildernesses and risked everything on the vast empty ocean. Within 60,000 years they colonised the whole world...  How did they do it? Why do we, their descendants all look so different? And what did we have that meant we were the only human species to survive? Using the evidence from genetics, fossils, archaeology and climatology, Dr Alice Roberts uncovers five epic routes our ancestors took across the globe and the obstacles and brutal challenges they encountered along the way. It reveals how our family tree grew and spread out across the world, producing all the variety we see in the human species today – but despite all that diversity, Alice reveals how astonishingly closely related we all are.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Alice Roberts At Her Best
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2024*

Dr Alice Roberts (now professor Alice Roberts) does an excellent job of presenting this fascinating series.As usual complex scientific ideas are explained as to be rendered to be as simple as possible. Would recommend this to anyone interested in prehistory.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    "We are all Africans under the skin"
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2010*

In this excellent BBC TV series Alice Roberts follows in the footsteps of our ancestors, who left Africa and ended up populating the whole world.  The TV series is very enjoyable, and there is also an accompanying book which goes into much more detail on the scientific debates.  I recommend both the DVD and the book. I first wrote this review in relation to book, but it applies equally to the TV series.Roberts shows how the evidence from bones, artefacts and genes tells us that Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa between 200,000 and 150,000 years ago and that all non-African humans throughout the world today are descended from one group of Homo sapiens who left Africa between 85,000 and 65,000 years ago.On her journey Roberts meets people who personify and bring to life many of the debates relating to human evolution. For example, at Pinnacle Point in South Africa she meets one of the archaeologists who have been excavating Blombos Cave. It was here that shell beads and pieces of ochre with carved geometric patterns were found dating back 75,000 years. At the same place other pieces of ochre were found dating back to 164,000 years ago, showing that modern humans were painting by that date. This evidence shot down the theory held by some scientists that art (and therefore modern brains and behaviour) did not appear until about 40,000 years ago in Europe. (For more on this, see my review here on Amazon of Stephen Oppenheimer's book, "Out of Eden".)Roberts meets some people who still refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence that all humans today are descended from African Homo sapiens. Some still cling to the untenable view that different so-called "races" of people evolved separately in different parts of the world from an earlier Homo species. For example, the Chinese government advocates the view that the people of China are special because they evolved separately from the rest of modern humanity, from Homo erectus in China. This has echoes of the time when Western racists claimed that white Europeans were superior and had come into existence separately from other "races".But Roberts also meets the Chinese geneticist Jin Li, who "started off wanting to prove the patriotic theory that the modern Chinese had a heritage that stretched back, unbroken, to Homo erectus, a million years ago." To his surprise, Li's research actually proved that this was NOT the case. It showed that the "recent Out of Africa hypothesis" was correct. To his great credit, Li accepts the evidence, and Roberts praises his "open-mindedness and objectivity".Roberts meets surviving hunter-gatherers and sees their egalitarian way of life. She then looks at the origins, only about 12,000 years ago, of settled societies and agriculture. She shows the contradictory nature of this change. The development of agriculture is usually seen as "progress", and it certainly created the conditions for a massive increase in population by producing a food surplus. This in turn provided the basis for the later growth of cities and "civilisation". But Roberts also shows that farming led to a worse quality and variety of diet and to a "general decline in health". (I would add that farming also paved the way for the development of class divisions, gender inequalities and war.)Roberts shows that some questions still have to be resolved. For example:  - Were modern humans responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals?  - Did modern humans interbreed at all with Neanderthals?  - Exactly when and by what route did our ancestors first move into the Americas?  - Did hunting by humans cause the extinction of large animals in various parts of the world?  - Was it natural selection in relation to climate or sexual selection which led to the physical and facial differences between humans from different parts of the world?  - Was it farmERS or farmING which spread across Europe from the Middle East?Finally, Roberts shows throughout the book how the climate and climate change have had an effect on both the biology and culture of our ancestors. And she ends by warning that global solutions are needed now if we are to avert the dangers that climate change is facing us with today.Phil Webster.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A must for archaeology and anthropology nuts.
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2023*

First saw this documentary series on TV a few years ago and wanted to watch it again. Dr Alice Roberts puts forward ideas and theories based on science and other factors to tell the stories of the probable journeys made by our ancestors as they strode forward from Africa to populate our modern world. She looks at evidence from DNA, archaeological finds, historical weather and geographical data. In doing so, she undertakes some remarkable journeys of her own to some of the most inhospitable and remote regions of the world.Alice is an enthusiastic and skilled communicator which makes this series all the series more enjoyable. Beautifully filmed and produced this should not be missed.

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