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Origins of Us

Season 1 Episode 2: Guts

A look at why women and cooking vegetables, rather than men and hunting, enabled one of humankind's greatest evolutionary leaps.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Bones

1. Bones

Aired: Oct 17, 2011

Revealing the advantages our skeleton has brought us as we learned to walk on...

Episode 2 Guts

2. Guts

Aired: Oct 24, 2011

A look at why women and cooking vegetables, rather than men and hunting, enab...

Episode 3 Brains

3. Brains

Aired: Oct 31, 2011

The final episode looks at how the human brain evolved, giving us a unique in...

Info about Origins of Us

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Genres:Documentary