Origins of Us
Season 1
2011tvEnded1 Season · 3 Ep
Documentary
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Network: BBC Two
Season aired: 2011-10-17
Overview
Dr Alice Roberts reveals how your body tells the story of human evolution. The way you look, think and behave is a product of a 6 million year struggle for survival.
Episodes · 3
1
Bones
1h 0m2011-10-17
In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.
2
Guts
1h 0m2011-10-24
In this second episode Dr Alice Roberts charts how our ancestors’ hunt for food has driven the way we look and behave today – from the shape of our face, to the way we see and even the way we attract the opposite sex.
3
Brains
1h 0m2011-10-31
In the final episode Dr Alice Roberts explores how our species, homo sapiens, developed our large brain; and asks why we are the only one of our kind left on the planet today?
