Yves Coppens
Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist. A graduate from the University of Rennes and Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary... Read full bio →
Le sacre de l'homme
With the help of state of the art special effects, this National Geographic documentary attempts to recreate what civilization looked like during the first 8,000 years that human beings lived on Earth.
Homo sapiens
Il y a deux cent cinquante mille ans, le premier représentant direct de notre espèce apparaît sur terre : l'Homo Sapiens... De -400 000 à -20 000 avant JC, nous suivons le destin d'Homo Erectus, de Néanderthal et de Sapiens. Nous allons ainsi découvrir l'apparition du language, de l'art, des cultes, de l'agriculture et de l'élevage...
L'odyssée de l'espèce
"A Species Odyssey" portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. 7 million years of triumph fraught with difficulties and extraordinary events that make Man what he is today.