6.9

Horizon•Season 50•Episode 15

What Makes us Human?

6.9/10 · 41 votesJul 3, 201360 min

Ranked #15 of 16 in Season 50•−0.4 vs season avg

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Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out what makes a human, human? What is that separates us from our closest living relatives - the chimpanzees? We

Directed byToby Macdonald

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E1 7.8

The Truth About Looking Young

E2 7.5

Mission to Mars

E3 7.7

Eat, Fast and Live Longer

E4 6.9

How Big Is the Universe?

E5 6.9

How Small Is the Universe?

E6 7.2

Defeating the Superbugs

E7 7.3

The Creative Brain: How Insight Works

E8 7.0

How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

E9 6.8

The Truth about Taste

E10 7.6

The Age of Big Data

E11 7.6

The Secret Life of the Cat

E12 7.1

Little Cat Diaries

E13 8.1

Fracking: The New Energy Rush