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	1
Episodes	13
Episode Runtime	55min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom
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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