The Journey of Mankind with Eddie IzzardS1 Ep2 - Dad's Line

Dad's Line - In this second episode, Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard embarks on a unique and epic, personal journey using his own DNA to trace the migration of his ancestors out of Africa and into Europe over the past 142,000 years. A simple saliva swab and the latest cutting edge DNA science help Eddie explore the secrets of his dad’s family history over the last 10,000 generations, as he traces his ancestral route across 10,000 miles all the way back home to Britain. Along the way he meets some of his DNA cousins among the Bakola pygmies of Cameroon and in the Middle East discovers how we first had sex with Neanderthals, as he finds out where the male Izzards came from. (Part 2 of 2) (From the UK) (Documentary) PG CC

The Journey of Mankind with Eddie Izzard was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 7 September 2014, 11:30.