54 minSeason 1 • Episode 5
LatestAround 12,000 years ago, as the Ice Age finally thaws, humanity makes a dramatic shift - abandoning nomadic life for permanent settlements.
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity's incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution – and how the story is stranger and more surprising than ever imagined.
Acting
Al-Shamahi's chaotic cavewoman reenactments are unhinged art.
Production
Global locations that make your couch feel inadequate.
Writing
Complex science made deliciously digestible.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Al-Shamahi is also a stand-up comedian, which explains the unhinged cavewoman impressions that somehow make genetics stick.
The series quietly demolishes Eurocentric 'march of progress' evolution charts that haunted your biology textbooks.
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