Neanderthal
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Neanderthal

Season 1
Ella Al-Shamahi, Andy Serkis, and a group of experts create a scientifically accurate 3D working avatar of a real Neanderthal.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1

    October 16, 2018
    55min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2

    May 19, 2018
    55min
    TV-PG
    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.
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