Video Library. Lascaux Cave Paintings - Virtual Tour. New Leakey Film Brings Early Humans to Life. For decades, the National Geographic Society has supported the Leakey family’s groundbreaking research into early human evolution, from patriarch Louis in 1965, to son Richard, his wife Meave, and their daughter Louise today. The new film “Bones of Turkana” (named for the region of Kenya where the research has occurred) tells the story of these expeditions and the ancient world they’ve helped to reveal.
Richard Leakey himself is the host, accompanied by life-size renderings of the human ancestors from which these bones came. “Bones of Turkana” premiered at a special National Geographic Live event in Washington D.C. in March, but airs across the United States on PBS Wednesday May 16th, 10pm ET. National Geographic Education has also assembled a collection of short activities, videos, and related maps and photos to help teachers, parents, or anyone learn about human evolution and explore one of the few places on the planet that holds records of the whole 4.5-million-year story.
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