BBC Focus Magazine

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Oct 14th, '11, 06:18

BBC Two 9pm Monday 18 October 2011
Episode 1 of 3 Bones
Duration: 1 hour
In the first episode Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.
Trekking through the forests of our ancient ancestors, she goes to meet the apes who still live there today - chimpanzees.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jjjw4

by **Healerman** » Oct 18th, '11, 22:15

Not generally a big Alice Roberts fan (too patronising) but this was well worth the watch. If you missed it then a visit to the iPlayer would be recommended.

I just wish the keep-fit brigade hadn't got involved! We were born to run? Propaganda!

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Oct 19th, '11, 05:55

And here's that iPlayer link for anyone interested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... _Us_Bones/

by **Liam Sheppard** » Oct 24th, '11, 13:53

cool, had no tv or web for 2 weeks.. I'll give that a gander

by **Liam Sheppard** » Nov 5th, '11, 16:31

this week she says that there is genetic evidence that Neanderthals and homo sapiens have interbred!?

Is this new evidence? As the book I'm reading by Oppenheimer says there is no evidence!

by **M Paul Lloyd** » Nov 5th, '11, 18:22

Yes I wondered about that Liam but the 'evidence' they seemed to be working from was DNA based and I guess if modern humans have Neanderthal DNA then I guess we might have interbred... although I'm left wondering if it isn't just a remnant from an older common ancestor?

by **Liam Sheppard** » Nov 6th, '11, 23:42

well they only appear in non africans so would have only occurred 60,000 years ago or so. when we left africa..

Maybe ginger hair or white skin could be a result of this mixture? but doubtful...

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