The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2003)

January 21st, 20032h 0min

Documentary
72%

Overview

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Microcosmos

Microcosmos


Released on: 1996-09-06
Documentary

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

The Wildebeest Migration: Nature's Greatest Journey

The Wildebeest Migration: Nature's Greatest Journey


Released on: 2012-12-15
Documentary

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...

Heal

Heal


Released on: 2017-10-20
Documentary

A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by cha...

The Great Australian Fly

The Great Australian Fly


Released on: 2014-03-25
Documentary

THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLY looks at how a national nuisance has shaped Australia and its people, confo...

Radical Self Acceptance

Radical Self Acceptance


Released on: 2021-12-10
Documentary

We are living in the time of a heteronormative society that antagonizes Queer people for their Being...

Mastodon in your Backyard

Mastodon in your Backyard


Released on: 2001-09-30
Documentary

A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.

Memory Books

Memory Books


Released on: 2008-05-01
Documentary

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Píseň jižních Čech

Píseň jižních Čech


Released on: 1951-01-01
Documentary

WHY ARE WE GETTING SO FAT?

WHY ARE WE GETTING SO FAT?


Released on: 2016-06-07
Documentary, TV Movie

A Cambridge geneticist dispels misconceptions about living with obesity and explores why the epidemi...

Kůrovec

Kůrovec


Released on: 1951-01-01
Documentary

When We Were Kings

When We Were Kings


Released on: 1996-10-25
Documentary, TV Movie, History, Music

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

White Man with Black Bread

White Man with Black Bread


Released on: 2007-01-13
Documentary

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...

Der lange Weg ans Licht

Der lange Weg ans Licht


Released on: 2008-02-28
Documentary

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...

Circumcision

Circumcision


Released on: 1949-01-01
Documentary

Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

Jane

Jane


Released on: 2017-12-28
Documentary

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives...

Lieven Scheire: DNA

Lieven Scheire: DNA


Released on: 2019-01-07
Documentary, Comedy

Human genetics is one of the most exciting fields in science at the moment. Not only does it advance...

Africa, Blood & Beauty

Africa, Blood & Beauty


Released on: 2012-01-04
History, Documentary

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...

The Hunters

The Hunters


Released on: 1957-01-01
Documentary

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...

Aimé Césaire, un Nègre fondamental

Aimé Césaire, un Nègre fondamental


Released on: 2007-11-09
Documentary

The Truth Is in the Stars

The Truth Is in the Stars


Released on: 2017-05-01
Documentary

William Shatner sits down with scientists, innovators and celebrities to discuss how the optimism of...