Journey of the Ancestors

The history of life is a vast field that palaeontologists have been exploring for almost two centuries. Tens of thousands of fossil species have been described and many extinct zoological groups identified. Yet despite this immense achievement, most people only know the two great stars of our 3.6-billion-year history: humankind and the dinosaurs. This magazine of Human and Earth Sciences provides entertaining insights into four complementary fields of science – prehistory, palaeontology, archaeology and geology. Viewers will be fascinated by its stories of our recent and more distant past.
Science – History – Past