Join anatomist Dr Alice Roberts (The Incredible Human Journey) in a fascinating BBC TV series that reveals how your body tells the story of human evolution. The way you look, think and behave is the product of a 6 million year struggle for survival that transformed us from forest dwelling apes to the most successful species on the planet.

In each episode, key features of our anatomy act as a trigger for a journey through time and across the globe on a quest to understand how and why we became what we are today.

The first episode, BONES, reveals the advantages our skeleton has brought us as we learned to walk on two feet – from hunting to tool use. Episode two, GUTS, takes a look at our insides and reveals why women and cooking vegetables, rather than men and hunting, enabled one of our greatest evolutionary leaps. And the final episode, BRAINS, looks at how the human brain evolved, giving us a unique insight into how we relate to each other today.

“As much about our bodies today as it is about our bodies 6 million years ago, Origins of Us will change the way you see yourself forever.” – Observer, UK