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First Peoples: Asia & Australia

Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction. Wednesday beginning at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.

first_peoples_tam_pa_ling_spot Tam Pa Ling woman shelters from a storm in Laos 63,000 years ago.
9 p.m.
Asia

Discover the ancient humans living across Asia when Homo sapiens arrived. Our ancestors mated with them and their genes found a home within our DNA. More than that, they’ve helped us face down extinction.

10 p.m.
Australia

When humans arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between early Australians and modern-day Aborigines; here the ancient and modern story intersect as nowhere else. The secret to this continuity is diversity. Intuitively, early Australians found the right balance between being separate and connected.

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