Early Humans

For almost a million years, homo habilis would live in social colonies across the plains and savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa, and were our earliest human ancestors.

As the era of Homo habilis drew to a close, new species of humans were beginning to colonize Africa. Join us as we discover the amazing story of Homo erectus.

Gigantopithecus is an enormous, extinct ape and he and his kind, are the largest primates ever to live.

Homo floresiensis was quite unlike anything else in the human fossil record and today we will be dissecting what we know about them.

Today we will be exploring the domestication of several different species - focusing mainly on domesticated species that are common across the world today.

We will be taking a whistle stop tour of the globe during the early years of humanity - specifically the years when Homo sapiens began to spread out across the continents.