Rise of Mankind
How did humans emerge from the range of other hominid species over the last few million years? How are humans different from the Neanderthals and other distant cousins?
This curated playlist explores one of the most compelling and vexing questions of modern science: how did humans emerge from a range of hominid species that walked the Earth over the last few million years? How are humans different from their cousins the Neanderthals or the ancient fire builder, Homo Erectus? How did humans go from isolated populations in Africa to a dynamic global species? What traces of our distant past reveal mankind's incredible journey?
