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Life on Earth
“A natural history by David Attenborough”
The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.
1979 9.1/10 community score 1 season · 13 episodes Ended
- Documentary
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- 1
- Episodes
- 13
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- Ended
Latest aired episode
S1 E13
The Compulsive Communicators
Aired 54 min
David Attenborough looks for crucial clues that help to explain how and why we have come to dominate life on earth. He traces back the African origins of humans to nearly three million years ago, and along the way he goes into caves in southern France where Stone Age people created imaginative paintings of ice-age animals. He also travels to Papua New Guinea to find some hunter-gatherers who have never before set eyes on white people.
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Season 1
13 episodes
First episode aired
Specials
3 episodes
First episode aired
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