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(0)Adrian Lester
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We explore our origins, place and destiny in the universe. We all start our lives thinking that we are at the centre of the universe, surrounded by our family and the world as it spins around us. But the urge to explore is strong. Our innate human curiosity has led us from feeling that we are at the centre of everything, to our modern understanding of our true place in space and time - that we are living 13.8 billion years from the beginning of the...
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We conclude our exploration of our place in the universe by asking what next for the ape that went to space. In northern Spain, we begin in a cave that was once home to our distant ancestors. Here, we discover some of the earliest art in the universe - a child's hand painted onto the wall that has remained intact for around 40,000 years. That child - if raised today - would be just as bright and just as capable as any modern child. Yet its vision...
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We explore the ingredients needed for an intelligent civilisation to evolve in the universe - the need for a benign star, for a habitable planet, for life to spontaneously arise on such a planet and the time required for intelligent life to evolve and build a civilisation. Experts weigh the evidence and attempt to provide an answer to the puzzle of our apparent solitude.
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We reveal how the wonderful complexity of nature and human life is simply the consequence of chance events constrained by the laws of physics that govern our universe. But why does our universe seem to have been set up with just the right rules to create us? In a dizzying conclusion, we explore this question, revealing the very latest understanding of how the universe came to be this way, and in doing so offer a radical new answer to why we are here.....
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Beginning in Ethiopia, we discover how the universe played a key role in our ascent from apeman to spaceman by driving the expansion of our brains. But big brains alone did not get us to space. To reveal what did, we head out of Africa to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, for the next part of our story - the birth of civilisation - and then on to Kazakhstan, where we witness the return of astronauts from space and explain what took us from civilisation...