7.9/1026 votesLoading...#1 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/20/2018
For around 400,000 years Neanderthals live and thrived right across Europe and Western Europe. But about 40,000 years ago they disappeared. In this second episode in the series, Ella Al-Shamahi - with the help of Hollywood actor Andy Serkis - explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct, and discovering how they live on inside of us today.
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7.4/1029 votesLoading...#2 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/13/2018
Ella Al-Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to create, for the first time ever, a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal. They discover that Neanderthals were more like us than we ever thought.
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The Best Episodes of Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
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According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Best Episodes Summary
"Episode 2" is the best rated episode of "Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors". It scored 7.9/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/20/2018. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 1".