David Attenborough traces the development of Homo sapiens in this last program of the "natural history" series. It is a disappointing
climax that dwells mostly on drawn-out musings on the ability of humans to communicate. He gives only a cursory treatment of human evolution,
and describes only Homo erectus among the early hominid, not even mentioning Australopithecus, H. erectus, or
H. neanderthalensis. Even the encounter with the isolated Biame people turn out to be little more than "me Tarzan" gesturing, and we
learn that humans from different cultures can, indeed, communicate.
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