Alice Roberts journeys across continents, uncovering the remarkable narrative of humanity’s dispersal from Africa to populate the globe. Confronting formidable landscapes, harsh climates, and even rival human species, she assembles a compel…

This series now ventures into Asia, the largest continent on Earth, seeking to understand how early nomadic peoples endured life in one of the planet’s harshest environments: the Arctic expanse of northern Siberia.

As our species made its way into Europe, the height of the Ice Age loomed, and the continent was already populated by a formidable competitor: stronger, perfectly adapted to the cold, and surprisingly, even more intelligent than ourselves. …

Alice contemplates the astonishing voyage our ancestors undertook to reach Australia. Remarkably preserved footprints and ancient human fossils, unearthed in the outback, hint at a profound enigma: humans arrived in Australia surprisingly e…

How did people first arrive in North and South America? Dr. Alice Roberts investigates evidence pointing toward an archaic passageway through the Canadian ice sheet, one that may have facilitated the passage of those earliest inhabitants. Y…