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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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