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Origins of Us

Season 1

2011 · 3 episodes

  1. 1. Bones

    2011-10-17 · 60m

    In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.

  2. 2. Guts

    2011-10-24 · 60m

    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. 3. Brains

    2011-10-31 · 60m

    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?

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