What Makes Me Human?
Professor Alice Roberts explores the story of human evolution, revealing how a humble African ape became a successful global species. Joined by daring parkour athletes, life-size primate animatronics, and an audience member transformed into an extinct Neanderthal, Alice will explore the greatest leaps in our evolution by conjuring fire, and re-enacting how we spread across the globe. Together with geneticist Prof Aoife McLysaght, they discover that we share an astonishing 99% of our DNA with chimps – and they look under the skin to find the 1% differences.