In this first of five new documentaries on BBC2, Dr Alice Roberts – who’s very funky for an old-bones-and-stuff doctor – asked, and attempted to answer, some of life’s big questions, such as, where do we come from? How did our ancestors colonise the world? How did their journeys change us?

These are the sort of questions our kids ask, well, the first one is anyway… any other kid asking the second two would be something of a child prodigy, however, chirpy anatomist Dr Alice Roberts didn’t seem in the slightest bit daunted by tackling this challenging set of questions.

Alice opened the show by saying, “They say this is where it all began…” as she wandered toward the camera through a barren and arid landscape before adding, “That we are all children of Africa, but if so, why do we look so different, and how on earth could a handful of African families become a whole world of people?”

She then told us she’s a “medical doctor and an anthropologist” while some rather rockin’ music played… Read more & comment »