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The Lost Tribes of Humanity

We like to think that humans are special, and we are but we are not one of a kind. The past thirty to frothy thousand years in human history have been really unique in the sense that we are alone on our planet. Earlier than this and there were always different types of humans around, those that we met and mixed with.

Thanks to well preserved DNA we now know that there were at least four other distinct types of human on the planet at the same time as us. There could even have been more than that but we just haven’t discovered yet. All of these other forms of humans however have been lost in time.

In this episode of Horizon, Alice Roberts sets out to explore the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, we discover the vast advances which are transforming this field of study thanks to our modern understanding of genetics.

These advances in genetics have also led us to discovering that our ancestors met and interacted with these other types of humans, in ways that still affect us today. Alice herself uses these revelations to update our picture of the human family tree.

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  1. Looks like it’s reversed…bbc logo..names, etc. The video is working but some of it is lost without print

  2. video link is down here’s another for anyone wanting to watch it
    https://dai.ly/x6sdh5i

  3. Watch The Great Human Odyssey instead and read articles on Smithsonian Natural museum of Natural History, http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence.

  4. What? No comments??? Awesome…. just mind-boggling. I’ve watched it, and watched at it numerous times now, trying to understand all the ramifications of what I’m seeing and hearing. I graduated in anthropology in 1965, but never worked in the field professionally. I have followed developments over the years and this is just so awesome, as they said, just the increases in computer speed have so greatly facilitated research on the genome. And such amazing discoveries around the world.

    • Yeah – I agree. This was new stuff to me too.
      Amazing really.
      And probably lots more still to discover.
      The religious whackjobs aren’t trolling this thread because they don’t understand the doco.

      • I watched this and was very surprised at how it linked to the fallen angels that mated with humans and creating nephilims who then went on to live in caves? Who are their offsprings?

      • There are Twelve Tribes.
        We Are NOT descended from apes.
        If you cannot FEEL it.
        Something is Wrong.