Human Universe

In Human Universe episode 5: Professor Brian Cox concludes his exploration of our place in the universe by asking what next for the ape that went to space. In northern Spain, he begins in a cave that was once home to our distant ancestors. Here, he discovers 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 of the future would be very […]

In Human Universe episode 4: A Place in Space and Time: professor Brian Cox explores 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. Brian tells the story of how 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