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The Best Episodes of The Incredible Human Journey

Every episode of The Incredible Human Journey ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Incredible Human Journey!

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There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years

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    The Incredible Human Journey Season 1 Episode 5 - The Americas
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #1 - The Americas

    S1:E5

    How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first people through. But some very ancient finds in southern Chile seem to suggest a very different way into the Americas; an ancient human skull discovered in Brazil even points to an Australasian origin of the Americans. Could a route from Australia across the Pacific have been possible?

    Director:Peter Oxley
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Incredible Human Journey Season 1 Episode 4 - Australia
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #2 - Australia

    S1:E4

    Alice looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that humans reached Australia almost before anywhere else. How could they have travelled so far from Africa, crossing the open sea on the way, and do it thousands of years before they made it to Europe?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Incredible Human Journey Season 1 Episode 1 - Out of Africa
    7.9/10(65 votes)

    #3 - Out of Africa

    S1:E1

    Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.

    Director:David Stewart
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Incredible Human Journey Season 1 Episode 3 - Europe
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #4 - Europe

    S1:E3

    When our species first arrived in Europe, the peak of the Ice Age was approaching and the continent was already crawling with a rival: stronger, at home in the cold and even (contrary to the popular image) brainier than us. So how did the European pioneers survive first the Neanderthals and then the deep freeze as they pushed across the continent?

    Director:Philip Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Incredible Human Journey Season 1 Episode 2 - Asia
    7.5/10(56 votes)

    #5 - Asia

    S1:E2

    In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth - the Arctic region of Northern Siberia.

    Director:Charles Colville
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Americas" is the best rated episode of "The Incredible Human Journey". It scored 8.2/10 based on 49 votes. Directed by Peter Oxley and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/14/2009. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Australia".