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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.

Origins of Us Season 1

October. 17,2011
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Origins of Us

2011

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.

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Origins of Us Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 3 - Brains
First Aired: 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?

Episode 2 - Guts
First Aired: 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.

Episode 1 - Bones
First Aired: October. 17,2011

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

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