Description

Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with our code HUMANKIND1 will get the first month for free on us: https://planetwild.com/r/historyofhumankind/join
If you want to get to know them better first, check out their mission restoring grasslands: https://planetwild.com/r/historyofhumankind/m19



Written by Angela Wipperman



Art by the legendary Ettore Mazza: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza



Fact checking by Lucy Timbrell



Narration by David Kelly



Editing by Siji Sheehan and Andrew Dixon



Title editing by Manuel Rubio



Produced by David Kelly and Andrew Dixon



Huge thanks to Bone Clones for their fantastic skull replicas. Check them out at https://boneclones.com/



Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
Stock footage from Storyblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock.



00:00 Introduction
04:10 Programmed Death
17:09 Killer Genes
28:24 Rise of the Elders
43:14 Immortality