What if everything we thought we knew about our origin was wrong?
In 2017, discoveries in Morocco rocked the world, revealing that Homo sapiens are 100,000 years older than previously believed. Join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she explores the groundbreaking fossil finds at Jebel Irhoud, and the clues to how we truly became human.
This clip is from Human (2025). You can watch the full episode from this series in the UK on BBC iPlayer from 14 of July: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002fc72/human
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