| Prehistoric Autopsy | |
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| Genre | Documentary film |
| Directed by | Natalie Humphreys (creative director) |
| Narrated by | George McGavin Alice Roberts |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | Three one-hour episodes |
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| Executive producer | Jane Aldous |
| Producer | Graeme Thomson |
| Cinematography | Vic Kusin Phil Piotrowsky |
| Editors | Paul Conti John Steventon John Wilson |
| Running time | 3 h (180 min) |
| Production company | BBC |
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| Network | BBC |
| Release | 22 October (2012-10-22) – 24 October 2012 (2012-10-24) |
Prehistoric Autopsy is a 2012 British television documentary film series shown in three one-hour episodes on BBC Two. The series is about human evolution and is narrated by biologist George McGavin and anatomist Alice Roberts. Graeme Thomson is the series producer and Jane Aldous is the executive producer.[1][2]
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| 1 | "Neanderthal" | 22 October 2012 (2012-10-22) | |
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Neanderthal hominids were a species of archaic humans in the genus Homo that date possibly to 600,000 years ago, but more likely to 250,000 years ago, and went extinct about 40,000 years ago.[3][4][5][6] This episode presents an attempt to reconstruct the way Neanderthals looked, based on available fossil evidence, especially those related to 70,000 year-old La Ferrassie 1.
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| 2 | "Homo erectus" | 23 October 2012 (2012-10-23) | |
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Homo erectus hominids were a species of extinct humans in the genus Homo that dates to 1.9 million years ago and went extinct as recently as 35,000 years ago.[7] This episode presents an attempt to reconstruct the way Homo erectus looked, based on available fossil evidence, especially those related to 1.6 million-year-old Nariokotome Boy.
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| 3 | "Lucy" | 24 October 2012 (2012-10-24) | |
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Lucy is an example of Australopithecus afarensis, a hominin in the genus Australopithecus that dates to 3.9 million years ago and went extinct about 2.9 million years ago.[8] This episode presents an attempt to reconstruct the way Australopithecus afarensis looked, based on available fossil evidence, especially those related to 3.2 million-year-old Lucy.
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The documentary film series is narrated by George McGavin and Alice Roberts and includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name):
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Evolutionary biology
Paleontology
