Life on Earth

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

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Status

Ended

Original Name

Life on Earth

First Air Date

January 16, 1979

Last Air Date

April 10, 1979

Seasons

Episodes

Language

English

Production Companies

BBC Studios Natural History Unit

Networks

BBC Two

S01E13

The Compulsive Communicators

A look for crucial clues that help to explain how and why we have come to dominate life on Earth. He traces back the African origins of humans to nearly three million years ago, and along the way he goes into caves in Southern France where stone-age people created imaginative paintings of ice-age animals. He also travels to Papua New Guinea to find some hunter-gatherers who have never before set eyes on white people

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