This is an interesting series about how all us African descendants came to be spread around the world and how some of us developed lighter skin. (there is nothing about ginger people tho?? maybe it is a government secret…)

Dr Alice is great as well, in the running it seems for Attenborough’s replacement

” There are seven billion humans on earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet.“

(… apparently thousands of years ago the Japanese evolved from a packet of “Pocky” )

“In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world’s greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth – the Arctic region of Northern Siberia. Alice meets the nomadic Evenki people, whose lives are dictated by reindeer, both wild and domesticated, and discovers that the survival techniques of this very ancient people have been passed down through generations. Alice also explores what may have occurred during human migration to produce Chinese physical characteristics, and considers a controversial claim about Chinese evolution: that the Chinese do not share the same African ancestry as other peoples.“

It is interesting how reindeer were so important to human evolution, I’ll pass on the reindeer wine tho…