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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.
Season 1
N/A/100 votesBones
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/17/2011
In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.
Director: David Stewart
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGuts
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/2011
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.
Director: Matthew Dyas
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBrains
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/2011
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?
Director: Paul Olding
Writer: Unknown