Your DNA is a time machine — and it's screaming 'AFRICA, BABY!'
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.
Direction
Maltby makes genetics cinematic, not classroom snooze-fest.
Writing
Wells narrates like Indiana Jones in a lab coat.
Cinematography
Stunning global locations tracing our ancestors' footsteps.
Director
Clive Maltby
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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