Season 1

(2005)
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Episodes 5

1 Seas of Life

April 14, 2005

1h

Steve Leonard explores the oceans & traces the story of life's origins from microbes to the the blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived.

2 Land Grab

April 21, 2005

1h

Steve Leonard follows in the footsteps of the first pioneering animals to invade land, in an evolutionary journey that leads from a fish to a human.

3 Airborne

April 28, 2005

1h

Steve Leonard discovers how living things first grew wings and how all flying animals are descended from 4 ancestors that acheived the miracle of flight.

4 Living Together

May 5, 2005

1h

Steve Leonard asks whether its's the relationships between living things that have created so much of the spectacular variety of life we see today.

5 Humans

May 12, 2005

1h

Steve Leonard asks how we came to be what we are by following in our ancestors' footsteps from chimp-like apes to modern humans.

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