Aired: 10/17/2011
In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.
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.
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?