Origin of us

Origin of us is a three-episode BBC documentary released in 2011 about the origins of man presented by Dr Alice Roberts, who explains to us the way our body tells the story of a six-million-year evolution.

The three episodes are entitled Guts, Bones and Brains.

This is the first part of the second episode, Bones, where  Dr Alice Roberts looks at how the human skeleton shows an incredible evolutionary journey.



You can read the transcript here.

You can find the three other parts of this episode here:

Part two.
Part three.
Part four.