Alice RobertsDave Stock
Physically, Homo sapiens is not that special in the animal world. But the species has discovered ways of finding food and beating the odds of survival in every habitat from jungle to Arctic wasteland.
It has also come to obsess Alice Roberts, who started off in medicine, becoming a surgeon and an anatomist. She was captivated by the evolutionary story of the ape that walked and talked, and is now professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her expertise spans anthropology, archaeology and palaeopathology.
She also has a huge track record of TV shows, from Digging for Britain and The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii to Witches of Essex, and a growing pile of books. Roberts was editor-in-chief of the latest, Humans: The evolution of a species, which tells the story of human evolution with illustrations and contributions from an international team, including Michael Marshall, who quizzed her about her latest work.
Michael Marshall: What’s the big idea in this latest part of your journey into the human past?
