i was excited about this documentary because of Nat Geo but saying just being disappointing is a sure understatement. Firstly, the author, within 10 minutes of the first episodes its clear that he's far far away from understanding what is coming out of his mouth Now about the content, oh and what to say about that, lets for one moment agree with the editor to focus on the main points. Fire, currency, war, shelter, medicine are all revolutionary points but it looks like its not about the whole earth but only Europe and some portion of north America. apart from China( that too minor mention) Asian countries were almost non existent, South America and Africa were not even mentioned, are you kidding, Mesopotamia, Indus valley and what not are not even mentioned once. its a show talking about Origins of humans from hunter gatherers to a civilized societies without even mentioning the first civilizations that ever existed. and about the time-lines what to say about them, don't know what the actual mistake of the creator was, not knowing an iota of the actual stuff and history or just whitewashing over them completely and presenting his own narrative.recommend this show as a fantasy for children but guess what the violence will not suit them, pathetic attempt in name of a documentary..p.s. Some visuals are nice..

For all you detractors of this series, I think your missing the point. There are probably thousands of us who had no idea of what our actual history is. So you don't like the presenter and there were probably some inventions that weren't included, but there was plenty of information for those of us who didn't know. I'm a senior with just a high school education and this series, including Jason Silva, kept me watching and even his repeated things made me listen more closely. It seems to me that even a simple person would learn from this series. Very educational.

I was hoping for a good documentary that made different points of view and made key observations of how specific inventions of moments affected the overall human history, here we have a bit of that, the drama acts in between i welcomed at first. These acts helped to connect with these moments and give more context than just plain numbers or facts but later on the acts became way too long and took to much time from the actual documentary part of the show.Then my largest disappointment is the constant focus on USA. On the episode about architecture and transportation they dedicated at least 8 min of the show about women rights or racism in the US. I came to the show to watch a documentary about humankind i don't wanna see a story about issues in the US, its fine to mention them sure but 8-10 min just about how blacks got banned from the firsts urban areas ? no thanks,specially since after that segment they barely gave 3 min to show Arcuitecture in possible houses of space, arguably a much better topic for a episode for freaking architecture, not American civil rights history.

The era of Murdoch has arrived at National Geographic. The sneaky indoctrination, the half-truths, the thinly disguised falsehoods and the pandering for the lowest common denominator. Origins, their new "documentary mini-series", is a disgusting product of the Fox "imagination". I'd be very, very surprised if there are scientists that appear here and there that are comfortable with the editing. From homo sapiens "swinging in the trees" to fire being a game changer a stupidifing mere 12,000 years ago, in an age with "no society, no protections, no guarantees", to cooking at such a time mandating a society were "women cook and men hunt." A totally idiotic, scientifically-illiterate, mischievous narrative of nonsense. Fire predates homo-sapiens. The protections of society are a major hominization driver from millions of years ago, and there are no evidence whatsoever that points to a women-cook, men-hunt, sexual division of labor at such times. This is what you get when scientific literacy takes a nose dive. this is what you get when you pander to the prejudices and illusions of knowledge from the dregs of your costumer base. This is where National Geographic goes to die in everything but a hollow brand name. Yes, I am furious. You should be too.