First peoples. Episode 2, Africa.
Around 200,000 years ago, a new species, Homo sapiens, appeared on the African landscape. While scientists have 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. DNA from a 19th-century African-American slave is forcing geneticists to re-think the origins of our species. The theory is that our ancestors met, mated and hybridized with other human types in Africa -- creating ever greater diversity within our species.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : PBS, 2015.
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Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by PBS in 2015. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Documentaries. Biology > Africa. |
Genre: | Documentary television programs. |