BBC Walking With Cavemen 2 of 4 Robert Winston

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Walking with Cavemen 2 of 4: Blood Brothers



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General Information

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Type.................: documentary - dokumentär

Production...........: BBC

Author/Presenter.....: Robert Winston



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Description

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Walking with Cavemen is a four-part television documentary series about human evolution produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was originally released in April 2003. It was subsequently presented in the United States as a two-part series by the Discovery Channel and its affiliates.



The documentary was produced largely by the same team who produced the award-winning documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts, though the original series' director, Tim Haines was not involved. In the previous documentaries, extinct animals were recreated with CGI and animatronics. For Walking with Cavemen, a slightly different approach was taken. While most of the animals depicted were still computer generated or animatronic, the human ancestors were portrayed by actors wearing makeup and prosthetics, giving them a more realistic look and permitting the actors to give the creatures a human quality.



Like its predecessors, Walking with Cavemen is made in the style of a wildlife documentary, featuring a voice-over narrator (Robert Winston in the British release, Alec Baldwin in the North American release) who describes the recreations of the prehistoric past as if they are real. As with the predecessors, this approach necessitated the presentation of speculation as if it is fact, and some of the statements made about the behaviour of the creatures are more open to question than the documentary may indicate.



Each species segment takes the form of a short drama featuring a group of the particular hominid in question going about their daily lives (the search for food, protecting territory, and caring for the sick and injured). The intent is to get the human viewer to feel for the creatures being examined, almost to imagine being one of them (a trait that the documentary links to the modern human brain).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_with_Cavemen




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Author/Presenter - Robert Winston

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Professor Lord Robert Winston was born in 1940 and named Robert Maurice

Winston. He graduated at London University in 1964 and held junior posts at

the London Hospital from that time. In 1970 he joined the Hammersmith Hospital

as a Registrar and became involved in research and development in

gynaecological microsurgery.



He is well known today to audiences throughout the world for his several BBC

television series, which include The Human Body, Secret Life of Twins and

Superhuman, and through which he has shown a great capacity for communicating

often complex science to a wide public audience. He is Professor of Fertility

Studies at Imperial College School of Medicine, London University, and is

world-renowned as a fertility expert. He also heads the Department of

Reproductive Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital in London.



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Walking with Cavemen - Episode 2: Blood Brothers

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The Africa of two million years ago is a crossroads in human evolution. Half a dozen or more different species of ape-men exist alongside one another. Each of them has exploited the environment in a different way and has developed their own strategy for survival.



"Blood Brothers" follows the lives of two species, Paranthropus boisei and Homo habilis who embody two alternative ways of ape-man life. Although heavyset, with distinctive gorilla-like faces, the boisei are gentle characters. They live within a strict social structure and are led by a dominant male whose strength and power holds the group together. They are adapted brilliantly to the tough conditions in this dry arid land. Their huge teeth, four times the size of our own, and strong jaws mean they can eat the toughest vegetation. For them dried tubers and reed roots are rich pickings.



The habilis have taken a different approach to survival. They don't have the specialisms of the boisei but instead have developed into the archetypal jack-of-all-trades, inquisitive scavengers prepared to try almost anything to survive. Tough, active, gregarious and noisy, they are always on the move and always alert to the possibility of a meal. They have come to use brainpower rather than brawn. They've learnt to work together to scare other predators away from food. They scavenge for meat and, perhaps most importantly, make basic stone tools - equipping themselves through their own efforts with the kind of specialist eating equipment creatures like the boisei have by nature.



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