Alice Roberts fosters an engaging and exciting view of the origin of human life in a very personal sense in The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being. She creates a compelling overview of human evolution using a evidence that combines evolutionary perspectives as well as an embryological developmental approach to examine the differences between us and other species and how we may have arrived at the physiology we currently possess.
“Alice Roberts is an anatomist and anthropologist , television presenter, author and Professor of Public Engagement with Science at the University of Birmingham. She has presented at Coast, Horizon, and several series about human evolution- including, The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us, and Prehistoric Autopsy– on BBC2. She has also Presented Inside Science on Radio 4, and she writes a regular science column for The Observer. She lives near Bristol with her husband and two small children” (Roberts ii).
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