Watch The Human Animal Season 1 Full Episodes

Humans are animals with similar biological needs to other species. So why have we got art, cinema, sport, literature and philosophy? In the last...

Desmond Morris looks at the natural history of the human parent and child. Why do homo sapiens devote more time to raising their young than any other...

In this program, Desmond Morris analyzes the biological nature of love, with its attendant patterns of behaviour and signals of health and fertility...

In evolutionary terms, the human animal has gone from mud hut to skyscraper in the mere twinkling of an eye. The cameras of the Natural History Unit...

This episode looks at our most fundamental activity - finding food, examining how humans exploit even the most inhospitable environments, and...

The BBC's Natural History Unit focuses on the planet's most advanced animal, beginning with a look at how man communicated before the evolution of...