First Peoples Africa (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV-14
TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary, History

First Peoples

Africa (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV-14

TV Episode | 54 min | Documentary, History

200,000 years ago, a new species, Homo sapiens, appeared on the African landscape. While scientists have long imagined eastern Africa as a real-life Garden of Eden, the latest research suggests humans evolved in many places across the ...See more200,000 years ago, a new species, Homo sapiens, appeared on the African landscape. While scientists have long imagined eastern Africa as a real-life Garden of Eden, the latest research suggests humans evolved in many places across the continent at the same time. Now, the DNA of a 19th-century African-American slave reveals that during the early days of our species, our ancestors continued meeting, mating and hybridizing with other human types in Africa--creating ever greater diversity within us. See less

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Kerry Shale Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Wrath of Man (2021)
Rebecca Ackermann Self - University of Cape Town Self - University of Cape Town See fewer	First Peoples (2015)
John Fleagle Self - Stony Brook University Self - Stony Brook University See fewer	First Peoples (2015)
Matthew Fomine Forka Self - University of Yaounde Self - University of Yaounde See fewer	First Peoples (2015)
Bennett Greenspan Self - Family Tree DNA Self - Family Tree DNA See fewer	Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2010)
Philipp Gunz Self - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Self - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology See fewer	Planet Wissen (2002)
Michael Hammer Self - University of Arizona Self - University of Arizona See fewer	First Peoples (2015)
John Hawks Self - University of Wisconsin-Madison Self - University of Wisconsin-Madison See fewer	Expedition Unknown (2015)
Israel Hershkovitz Self - Tel Aviv University Self - Tel Aviv University See fewer	Expedition Unknown (2015)
Jacqueline Johnson Self - Great-great-granddaughter of Albert Perry Self - Great-great-granddaughter of Albert Perry See fewer	First Peoples (2015)
Svante Pääbo Self - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Self - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology See fewer	Conversations with History (1982)
John Shea Self - Stony Brook University Self - Stony Brook University See fewer	Nova (1974)
Linda Vigilant Self - University of California, Berkeley Self - University of California, Berkeley See fewer	First Peoples (2015)

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