Neanderthal

Ella Al-Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to create a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal. They discover that Neanderthals were more like us than we ever thought.

Why did Neanderthals become extinct? One of the reasons might have been that they got into a physical showdown with modern humans. Ella investigates one of the world’s oldest murder mysteries - a skeleton found in Iraq, known as Shanidar 3. In the studio, Ella and her team of scientists reconstruct an experiment to discover whether the perpetrator was a Neanderthal or a modern human.