1. Story of England: Stone Age to Roman Days
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Evolution of the Neanderthals
Some of these might be our ancestors, I mean directly in an evolutionary sense and possibly as we've mentioned in a DNA sense. It's incredible to think that if they were completely different to us, that they've just died out about evolutionary branch has ended in failure. Even Neanderthals, even though physically they disappeared, a bit of them in a sense lives on in us. For the vast majority of that 900,000 years, when there was some form of human feet walking on this septed aisle, the vast majority it was hunter gathering.
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