This set contains both episodes from the A SPECIES' ODYSSEY program. EPISODE 1: FROM RIFT TO THE WORLD CONQUEST takes viewers back eight million years to when the Great Rift Valley was first formed and to when the first differentiation could be found between the apes and the first pre-humans. Travel with the species which would eventually become the human up through EPISODE 2: FROM THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE TO MODERN HUMANS, which examines the first-known tombs and the development of the species' Java Man and Neanderthal Man, who would later have to confront the Homo sapiens. The program takes viewers through the entire period known as prehistory.