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  Human Planet

  Every Tuesday at 21:00

  Humans are the ultimate animals – the most successful species on the planet. From the frozen Arctic to steamy rainforests, from tiny islands in vast oceans to parched deserts, people have found remarkable ways to adapt and survive in the harshest environments imaginable.

  This eight-part series reveals how humans have employed immense courage and ingenuity to achieve this global proliferation, utilising and co-habiting with the other creatures that live in these remarkable places.

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  The secret of our success
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  Inside the Human Body

  From Wednesday 22 February at 21:00

  Every human on the planet is united in the fact that we share the same basic biology, but by intercutting between images of people around the world behaving in similar ways, the universality of our experiences is highlighted. The most technologically advanced cameras show human behaviour in super-slow motion, revealing elements of ourselves that we are completely unaware of.

  From the fundamental organs that keep us alive, to the development of the brain, locomotion and communication, and from the reasons for our unique ability to fall in love to the story of our immune system, Inside the Human Body is an astonishing adventure inside and outside the human body which guarantees that you will never think of yourself in the same way again.

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  What lies beneath
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  Origins of Us

  From Tuesday 28 February at 22:00

  Our anatomy is the secret of how humans became so successful - from the way we walk, to the shape of our jaw and even the way our thumbs move, we are connected intimately to the struggles and triumphs of our ancestors.

  Our skeletons have brought us advantages as we learned to walk on two feet – from hunting to tool use. A look at our guts reveals why women and cooking vegetables, rather than men and hunting, enabled one of our greatest evolutionary leaps. And the evolution of the human brain gave us a unique insight into how we relate to each other today.

  But, many of those changes have come at a surprising cost, and the problems we face now are a direct consequence of our evolutionary journey

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  The triumph of anatomy