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has all fingers and thumbs with Dr Alice Roberts on the origins fascinating us, while Reggie muted criticism that stuttering in the speech of children

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as metaphors go, there's nothing like a sunrise in Africa to carry out a yawn reflex (an adaptive response caused by eons of documentaries on the dawn of humanity and our previous life as monkeys), but I must admit Origins of us I was quite unintelligible otherwise interested in the Monday night. Why chimpanzees hanging from the trees, like our ancestors, when he flew to the moon, and has written musicals? Well, the main reasons were still there - on foot and thumb turned up - but how, when and why of it, courtesy of the lovely bones expert Alice Roberts, is an early involvement this three-part series

to toe, for example, said Alicia, who shows us one of their own: not ideal for peeling bananas, but perfect for standing on when the forests were diluted 6,000,000 years, leaving patches of forest and - moments later in evolutionary time - hot cross vast plains. As explained by Alice (the relocation of a brief report in the jungle of Uganda to a university laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts), one could see the fossilized remains of a monkey to three million years, "Lucy "that the base of the tibia, where he met the ankle was designed for a biped. More recently, we discovered a skull of at least twice that age, where the output of the spinal cord was clearly and directly under the skull, suggesting a back as straight as ours. There seems little doubt that these men would have been useless in the old PG Tips ads, but when it came to the compaction of the protein - and the creation of Savannah has an explosion of new animals tear each other apart - they were survivors.

Alice soon on a dusty plain organization of the bone of a young Kenyan 1.5 million years (when they were skeletons, Alice was like a child with a Rubik's cube) - Worldwide Best example of Homo erectus. He was confined in the Department of the brain (Torres and Tevez in the department of the East), but if I saw him from afar, he said, would suppose that he was one of us. But the real surprise - which is surprising for those of us who can not shake the image of our ancestors that trawlers slow joints - which was also built for drag racing. For now, Alice was panting in a ribbon cable to the bottom of a monitor to show the effectiveness of your buttocks, which - with the shoulders low, a narrow waist and a ligament unique to humans that somehow links face-to-arms - was fundamental, because I started to think, to hunt gazelles and lions (by all means do not write to tell me why it would have been impossible).

was much more: the sweat was our secret weapon to stay cool, Alicia said, beaming a little herself. And have you noticed how chimpanzees can not eat an apple with one hand? That's the beauty of his thumbs are not famous. Ours, on the other hand, are the work of the company "pinch" for the use of flint tools invented as Homo habilis ("man of do it yourself"). A quarter of all the bones in our hands, he said in his pleasant Alicia West Country burr. I have been using mine to applaud. If only I could say the same for the more adventurous, but disappointing

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