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APE MAN ADVENTURES IN HUMAN EVOLUTION: FIRST-BORN
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The second programme in a six-part series exploring evolution and the origins of human life. Tells how the discovery of a child's skeleton on the edge of the Kalahari Desert gave rise to the theory of a species that straddled the evolutionary boundary between humans and apes. Explores whether the Australopithecines or `upright apes' flourished because of their abandonment of a vegetarian diet.