Walking with Cavemen

00:00:05 First, our ancestors walked upright.

00:01:29 and their foe, the giant elk, Megaloceros.

00:02:47 and they'll use all their skill and love

00:03:54 And that's because, for all their success in overcoming their physical environment

00:04:52 It's not that his companions didn't like him - they loved him.

00:05:55 and expose the Europeans and the Africans to two incredible extremes.

00:07:14 Neanderthals.

00:08:31 It will be her first child.

00:09:36 Pleez ee gloo!

00:10:45 They've another adaptation that helps them survive.

00:11:58 ...things that you and I might find unbearable.

00:13:45 Mah!

00:15:14 The head of the valley

00:16:49 So where do we stand in the journey towards you and me?

00:18:06 For a start, it's about a mammoth that can talk

00:19:06 have turned vast tracts of the continent to near desert...

00:20:13 And that is what this family is doing.

00:21:12 Here in Africa, that intense natural selection

00:22:28 the ability to think ahead, to go beyond the here and now

00:23:44 yet we know from studying our genes

00:24:59 made real.

00:26:01 these people, us, have at last stepped outside the rules of life.

00:27:07 (BABY GURGLES)