Human Universe
| Human Universe | |
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| Genre | Documentary series |
| Presented by | Professor Brian Cox |
| Composer(s) | Philip Sheppard |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Andrew Cohen |
| Producer(s) | Gideon Bradshaw |
| Cinematography | Paul O'Callaghan |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC/Science channel Co-production |
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| Original network | |
| Original release | 7 October – 4 November 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Wonders of Life (2013) |
| Followed by | Forces of Nature (2016) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Human Universe is a British television series broadcast on BBC Two, presented by Professor Brian Cox.An accompanying book was also published.
Human Universe was commissioned by Janice Hadlow for BBC Two and Kim Shillinglaw, head commissioner for science and natural history. The series consists of five sixty-minute episodes.
First broadcast: 7 Oct 2014 at 9:00 pm on BBC Two
Brian charts our story from apes to the birth of civilization and ultimately to the stars.
Beginning in Ethiopia, Professor Brian Cox discovers 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, Brian heads out of Africa, to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, where he unpicks the next part of our story - the birth of civilization - and then on to Kazakhstan, where he witnesses the return of astronauts from space and explains what took us from civilization to the stars.
First broadcast: 14 Oct 2014 at 9:00 pm on BBC Two
Brian Cox tackles the question that unites the 7 billion people on Earth: Why are we here?
Brian reveals 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 this leads him to a deeper question - why does our universe seem to have been set up with just the right rules to create us? In a dizzying conclusion Brian unpacks this question, revealing the very latest understanding of how the universe came to be this way, and in doing so offers a radical new answer to why we are here.
First broadcast: 21 Oct 2014 at 9:00 pm on BBC Two
Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist and will humans ever find it?
Brian discusses the Drake equation and explains the ingredients needed for an intelligent civilization 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 civilization. Brian weighs the evidence and arrives at his own provocative answer to the puzzle of our apparent solitude. He argues that the difficulty inherent in the development of eukaryotic cells represents such a barrier to the emergence of intelligent life that Earth may be the only planet where this has taken place in the Milky Way galaxy. In this episode Brian also tells us how Kepler observes into deep space seeking other solar systems just like our very own - How many potential 'earth-like' planets are there in the galaxy?
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