Origins of Us
Origins of Us: Season 1

Air Date

October 17, 2011

Episodes

3 episodes

Origins of Us

Season 1

Episodes

Bones

1. Bones

October 17, 2011
60 min

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

Guts

2. Guts

October 24, 2011
60 min

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.

Brains

3. Brains

October 31, 2011
60 min

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?