In this new series, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity's incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – thanks to new discoveries – we're learning that the story is stranger and more surprising than we ever imagined. When Homo sapiens emerged in Africa we were not alone: there were at least six other human species alive at the time. Human examines how we went from being just one of many types of human to the dominant form of life on the planet