The BEST episodes written by Michael Olmert

The Survivors
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8.52
168 votes

#1 - The Survivors

Walking with Cavemen - Season 1 - Episode 4

A focus on a group of Homo heidelbergensis, advanced tool users who lived in family units but who were incapable of imagination, and their descendents the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, who came to conquer the world.

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Savage Family
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8.34
169 votes

#2 - Savage Family

Walking with Cavemen - Season 1 - Episode 3

An extraordinary new breed of ape-man called homo ergaster has taken over Africa. They are expert tool-makers, food-finders and travellers, but where they differ most from their predecessors is in their communal lifestyle. The third instalment of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry travels back one-and-half million years to explore this innovative creature.

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First Ancestors
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7.99
183 votes

#3 - First Ancestors

Walking with Cavemen - Season 1 - Episode 1

Journeying millions of years into the past, Winston goes on the trail of Australopithecus afarensis, an ape who took the first step towards modern man.

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Blood Brothers
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7.78
172 votes

#4 - Blood Brothers

Walking with Cavemen - Season 1 - Episode 2

Two species of ape-man feature in the second of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry: the gentle, root-munching Paranthropus boisei and the enterprising scavenger Homo habilis. Who had the best strategy for survival in their prehistoric world?

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