The third program in a six-part series exploring evolution and the origins of human life. Discusses the long search conducted by anthropologists since Darwin for the `missing link' between apes and man. Tells the story of how key discoveries, one in Java and the other by Richard Leakey in Kenya, 90 years apart, fixed the point at which the primate family tree divided and Homo erectus emerged. The discovery during the 1980s of a skeleton that was nicknamed Nariokotome Boy confirmed that `ape man' lived about one-and-a-half-million years ago in a body that was practically human, yet with a tiny brain and the nature of a wild animal.
click here to see where to watch or .
Ready to Watch Ape Man Adventures In Human Evolution, Season 1, Episode 3?