Series
Origins of Us
2011 · 1 season · 3 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Documentary
TMDB 7.6 · 5 votes
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
- S01E01Bones2011-10-1760m
In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.
- S01E02Guts2011-10-2460m
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.
- S01E03Brains2011-10-3160m
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?
