Origins of Us - Season 1
1 - Bones
Air Date: October 17, 2011
In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.
2 - Guts
Air Date: October 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.
3 - Brains
Air Date: October 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?