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Alice Roberts

Humans

Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

Life

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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Humans

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Humans

Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment

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Life

Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Life

Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

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Life

Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes

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The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever

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