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The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey and Digging for Britain gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies and into the past to uncover the evolutionary secrets hidden in all of us.
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Alice Roberts is an anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, anthropologist, television presenter, author and professor at the University of Birmingham. She has presented The Incredible Human Journey and Coast on BBC 2, Inside Science on Radio 4 and appeared as an expert on Time Team on Channel 4. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two children.
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