Big History — Season 1, Episode 14: Rise of the Carnivores
Documentary • 22 min • 1 season, 17 episodes • ★ 7.8/10
Episode synopsis
Eating meat made us human...by giving us bigger brains, better tools, and spoken language. The human need for beef has driven history across the hemispheres, but how did we turn an ancient mega-beast into the cow we have today? Big History traces all the beef on earth back to a single prehistoric herd.
About Big History
Explores many facets of epic moments in history from the past 13.7 billion years, from a Big History perspective.