Life on Earth
Season 1, Episode 13: The Compulsive Communicators
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A look for crucial clues that help to explain how and why we have come to dominate life on Earth. He traces back the African origins of humans to nearly three million years ago, and along the way he goes into caves in Southern France where stone-age people created imaginative paintings of ice-age animals. He also travels to Papua New Guinea to find some hunter-gatherers who have never before set eyes on white people
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Infinite Variety
Episode 2
Building Bodies
Episode 3
The First Forests
Episode 4
The Swarming Hordes
Episode 5
Conquest of the Waters
Episode 6
Invasion of the Land
Episode 7
Victors of the Dry Land
Episode 8
Lords of the Air
Episode 9
The Rise of the Mammals
Episode 10
Theme and Variations
Episode 11
The Hunters and Hunted
Episode 12
Life in the Trees
Episode 13
The Compulsive Communicators