The Incredible Human Journey
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The Incredible Human Journey is a five-episode, 300-minute, science documentary film presented by Alice Roberts, based on her book by the same name. The film was first broadcast on BBC television in May and June 2009 in the UK. It explains the evidence for the theory of early human migrations out of Africa and subsequently around the world, supporting the Out of Africa Theory. This theory claims that all modern humans are descended from anatomically modern African Homo sapiens rather than from the more archaic European and Middle Eastern Homo neanderthalensis or the indigenous Chinese Homo pekinensis.
The Incredible Human Journey | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Presented by | Alice Roberts |
Theme music composer | Ty Unwin |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 5 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Kim Shillinglaw |
Producer | Paul Bradshaw |
Running time | 300 minutes (five episodes of 60 mins each) |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 10 May (2009-05-10) ā 14 June 2009 (2009-06-14) |
Each episode concerns a different continent, and the series features scenes filmed on location in each of the continents featured. The first episode aired on BBC Two on Sunday 10 May 2009.[1]