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Horizon tells amazing science stories and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Horizon: 2001-2002: The Ape That Took Over the World

04/10/2001

The Ape That Took Over the World

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BBC Two - Horizon, 2001-2002, The Ape That Took Over the World

A fossil skull named Flat-Faced Man may overturn traditional theories of human evolution.

Can an ancient fossilised skull named 'Flat-Faced Man', recently unearthed by Dr Meave Leakey in Kenya, overturn traditional theories of human evolution?

This year, the discovery of an ancient fossil called "Flat-Faced Man" rocked the world of anthropology.  Recently unearthed in Kenya, by the distinguished palaeontologist Dr.Meave Leakey, it is of a possible human ancestor unlike any seen before.  It now seems that Flat-Faced Man could well revolutionise our understanding of human evolution. The great mystery of human evolution has always been how and why did humans evolve to be such exceptional and intelligent creatures? Many believed that the fossil record showed we came from a unique line of early ape-like human creatures.  But this new skull suggests that far from being descended from a unique line of apes, there were probably many two-legged ape-like creatures that emerged in the last seven million years, any one of which could have been our ancestor. And what's worse, because of this, it now seems that we may never know who our early ancestor was. 

Horizon: 2001-2002

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