Anybody feeling a bit depressed about the shortcomings of humanity could do worse than watch Brian Cox’s new series Human Universe (BBC2, Tuesday) — which, judging from the first episode, is all about how great we are.
Early on, Cox was shown hanging out, Attenborough-like, with some gelada baboons in the highlands of Ethiopia.
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