Ancestors with Professor Alice Roberts | The Royal Society
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- Join author, academic and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts for her David Attenborough lecture, Ancestors, as she journeys through time to uncover the lost stories of our prehistoric ancestors - written in stone, pottery, metal and bone.
Burials are like time capsules - each one, a physical biography, written into the skeleton. Objects placed into graves provide us with some of our clearest evidence of ancient cultures - and the science of genomics is now revolutionising our perception of the deep past. From the colonisation of the globe in the Palaeolithic to the prehistory of Britain, Alice reflects on what archaeological discoveries tell us about our ancestors and the human experience that binds us all together.
Professor Alice Roberts was the first recipient of the Royal Society’s David Attenborough award for Public Engagement in 2020. An anatomist and biological anthropologist, Alice made her television debut in the UK in 2001 and since then has written and presented a number of popular TV programmes and series. Alice has been the Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Birmingham since 2012. She has also written eleven books ranging across anatomy, evolutionary anthropology and archaeology.
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@@ChayAaronStevenson11 far to much evidence of stasis models need reformed to match . So what if the imaginary brackets in our text books are straight instead of branching. So what if it's many orgins rather one singularity. Go with the evidence it's been over 150 yrs no w,a, if actors or tv icons can save that model.
Stevenson Gold indeed.
Dr.Roberts can you explain to Us how memories of our forefathers encode into our DNA ?
It's pretty obvious that the higher the cortex neurones the greater the necessity for foetal retained memory in speech.
A bovine with higher necessity for food and a aviarian with higher necessity for speech retention.
I did observe the BoyBird having jumped from his nest at less than two weeks of age and raised by me whilst sleeping in his ice cream container nest at night would in order repeat the all the different calls the Wild Lorikeets would make. I wondered how he could repeat these calls so precisely having never heard a Wild Lorikeet call.
It is my understanding that we Parrott the Parrots and that we in fact are only mimicking them.
Additionally I did note Boy's father could not talk however his mother could talk up a storm which was quite the opposite in terms of Bird Brains.🦜🦉
Birds & Salmonella... Human's & Borellia... A Matter in Speech...
Dr.Robert's can you explain the symbiotic relationship inside the Covid Virus between Borellia & Mycelium Fungus?
Wonderful recognition Alice; impressive David Attenborough . Honoured 🎉🎉🎉🎉
What a remarkable woman Alice Roberts is! I've watched so many of the programs she presented and have learned so much. What a delight. She is the perfect person to receive this award.
always make a point of watching Dr Alice she explains in terms we can ALL understand and she never fails to entertain .....thank you Alice and congratulations
Love listening to Alice Roberts. She's a national treasure.
You might want to reevaluate that ........
search for this video "1+ hour fake station fails"
Tim Birch
Ewe Love listening to Scripted Shit since Ewe Live On Shit.
I have been following Prof. Alice Roberts career for many decades, and the presentation of this prestigious inaugural David Attenborough award to her is the well deserved recognition for her many and diverse services to science. Congratulations to you Alice Roberts :)
Highly intelligent, beautifully attractive, approachable and modest, but unquestionably passionate within her chosen fields of science and communication - absolutely splendid.
Fascinating presentation and congratulations on the award, thoroughly deserved 👍
Prof. Roberts, you have inspired your own share of future scientist and archaeologists.
Ash professor Alice!. Brilliant, engaging and aesthetically gifted.
That was an extremely professional and focused rendering about our ancestors here in England... It is obvious that you have won the first ever the inugural David Attenborough award you so deserve it... Absolutely brilliant.. many congratulations professor Alice.
👍👍
Found Alice to be in wonderland with that disgusting freak David Attenborough who stated humans are a plague. Do you like being told you are a plague?
@@broto8 No, wrong. David Attenborough is a criminal, actually a psychopath. 'It' has no understanding of the natural world and calls humans a plague whilst promoting living on a spinning, wobbling, pear shaped oblate spheroid that sometimes a sphere. Zipping through the vacuum of space, with not one practical demonstration of this magical theory.
@@broto8 No, Alice in wonderland has been recognised by a psychotic unnatural, by the the name of Attenborough. A known dysfunctional intellectual who has awards named after it for Alice's in wonderland.
I found Alice to to be rhetoric and to have no substance in any matter. Except for gibberish. So we'll keep at that.
@@waterisempiricallylevel.4059
Do you have any scientific evidence for those “claims” and slanderous remarks?
Because he can back what he says with strong empirical evidence.
Or are you just trolling?
@@budd2nd I think you know the answers. He's a subliterate cheap shot troll desperate for attention in a world he fears and doesn't understand at all.
You have always made your programs very interesting and I’ve watched almost all of them your knowledge is second to none keep up the great work and please don’t stop making digging for Britain 🇬🇧 we all think your amazing
Can't think of a more deserving recipient of the Attenborough award given the effort and success Alice has had communicating science and evolution. I particularly recommend her presentations with the the Royal Institution as well as what has to be a thoroughly fascinating book.
If I could meet just one celebrity before I exit this world, it would definitely be Professor Alice Roberts. It won't happen, of course, but I can at least pretend as I listen to her interviews, presentations, videos, audiobooks.
@@TheMoon-mc9nk @C3PO's daddy
Brilliant lecture and interview. She is such a passionate and bright person, that's' why I love her.
Congratulations on the award, well deserved....and thanks for the truly interesting presentaion.
Alice Roberts. If there was an award for the sexiest scientist, she would be the winner every year. Have watched many of her programmes over the years. Very interesting and my children can understand what the subjects are about.
It seems that prof. Alice is an excellent artist too. 💪♥️
Wonderfull!!! ❤️ CONGRATULATIONS PROF. ♥️♥️♥️🌈🌈🌈
There is a saying: " Happy people do not write history" I love that! Immagine how many happy people lived without leaving any trace behind them. I love the thought that they were my ancestors! I don't care about my gene lineage and if I had "famous" ancestors - I prefer anonymous happy people. 🌞🌞🌞🌞
Never heard that one. Where is it a saying?
@@helenamcginty4920 : Apparently it is French saying. I read it in some history book years ago. Soory, I can't remember the title of the book now. But I was surprised and delighted when I read it. It is so true. 👋🌞🌞
Many Thanks for showing us such an interesting and wonderful Exploration of our Origins by Professor Alice Roberts, I always look forward to her Lectures, and balanced Scientific Explanations, excellent, Thank you once again.
Congratulations to Professor Roberts on the recent award of the first David Attenborough Award. It is much merited. And thank you to the RI for making this fascinating video talk available to a wide audience.
Dr. Roberts' undeniable talent as an illustrator seems to go much unmentioned. Her renderings online in various locations are most definitely publish-worthy. How do I know? Because I, as a consumer, would purchase a copy of any work containing them... and I doubt that I stand alone within that statement. A children's book collaboration [perhaps with a colleague called "Dawkins" (?)] would be stellar as well. #supplyandrequest
An enlightening talk. Something at the end caught my attention. Around ways in which we could know what thoughts occurred. In some ways finding meaning from the art and the objects may actually provide more insight than someone's thoughts. That's because what we think isn't always the reality, what if the truth is somewhere deeper and the only way this is expressed is through the items we hold precious to us, or that we create.
Prof Roberts explain this subject so well. I'm currently reading Ancestors, is filled with great information, new things to think about regarding our past and go looking for more about this subject.
22:12 I absolutely love what you say here about how he proves himself to be a true scientist by changing his mind in the face of the evidence
Absolutely brilliant. Congratulations ALICE and thank you for a brilliant lecture and question time.
Our pleasure!
Its the joy in the passion that I love, Alice is so real , I admire her so much !
She's new to me. What a gift is TH-cam!!
Amazing presentation, amazing presenter, amazing smile.....
She is someone I always listens to when I can
Thanks
Infectious enthusiasm. Fascinating. Brava Dr Roberts!
Alice, just a wonderful perspective on our ancestors, and congratulations on the well deserved award, couldn't have been given to a more deserving person. Love the hair x
Clever, humble, gorgeous, keen to share her knowledge beyond the walls of her University and not an eye roll enducing feminist with an agenda #refreshing. #DrAliceRoberts, a wonderful human being and destined to carry #Attenborough's torch. Congratulations on the well deserved award.
Fascinating presentation. A worthy winner of the prize.
Well done , amazing personal achievement ❤️
Ever since Time Team - my all time favourite television programme - Alice Roberts has been my all time favourite Scientist and, to be entirely non PC, it never hurt that she was and is; drop dead gorgeous. It is because of her I refrain from accusing those with no imagination, wit or common sense of being 'Neanderthal' and, because of her, I know most of us have a Neanderthal component to our DNA.
When you realise there are thousands, tens of thousands of people, mostly American, many of them well educated, out there who believe - fervently - that the planet is 6000 years old and Noah's Ark was real, it makes you wonder who is wrong? Them, or Alice? I'll give you three guesses as to who I think gets the wooden spoon of history.
I don't know if it is perverse or deluded, but I hold a number of people in great esteem - as I do Alice - mostly for their ability to explain and pass on their knowledge, enthusiasm and love for their subject. Rightly or wrongly, I class Alice alongside the greatly missed Fred Dibnah. I am primarily an engineer, so he always ticked boxes for me and I could see and feel where he was going immediately. (With his "demonsterations) Alice has many academic qualifications that Fred did not, but it is her lovely Bristol accent and gentle view of her subject that fascinates me.
What a sad, sad world we live in when we have to be cautious when we say a beautiful woman is alluring...
@@gregkilby7043 Yeah not like in the old days when you could rub up against a married woman and no one would cave your head in.
@@gregkilby7043 can you really be so tone deaf that you do not understand that it has NOTHING whatever to do with “appreciating” someone’s beauty(men also, can be beautiful) but rather it is the use of someone’s physical appearance as a meter for ones reaction to them....to infer that beauty(a total genetic accident) takes precedence over intelligence and scholarly experience(which takes hard work as well as a keen mind), and to therefore trivialise that intelligence. Unless you also comment on the “attractiveness” of male scholars? Or is the truth of it simply that you resent being called on being thoughtless and ignorant?
@@catzkeet4860 As someone who is thoughtless and ignorant, I do not understand why you critiqued me so. I merely stated that it appears today a beautiful woman can not be commented upon without repercussions. I have not linked beauty to intelligence (as there is none). I'm certain there are many handsome male scholars, but I am only sexually attracted to the female of my species. Now, excuse me, as this Troglodyte needs to trudge back into his man cave...
@@gregkilby7043 no, you stated that it is a sad world that we live in when we must be cautious when we , to use your words “say a beautiful woman is alluring...”
I would say, on the contrary, that I am glad that FINALLY people (tho a scant few even now)think at least once if not twice before trotting out some comment based on the decorative value of an individual who is presenting something to the public. You may feel that you are being complimentary.......and you may even believe that it’s a compliment to a woman to be told that a male finds her attractive, alluring pretty.....in short, decorative, instead of commenting on the award she just received, the work she does in education, the science that she has presented, her obvious enthusiasm for her field or ANYthing really that has ANY bearing on her presentation (a hint for you....her appearance does not) but I regret to inform you that this is not the case because however you look at it, it’s a pretty backhanded sort of “compliment” The sad part is that you don’t seem to realise this.
Thanks for the information. You learn something new every day. I live near the Gower, it’s quite personal for me.
love alice roberts as a presenter
That was interesting! I didnt realize the Beaker people might have had such a major impact on our ancestry. It's all so fascinating - thank you.
Fantastic discussion. Well deserved winner.
Loved the idea of wishing we knew what they were thinking
I loved that idea too. Who knows... One day maybe? Imagine explaining carbon dating to a Victorian explorer? Same way with memory rerieval, in that the more we learn about how memory is encoded and stored maybe one day it may be possible to retrieve traces of memory in a similar way that we can accurately date remains of burials with modern technology these days. (just thinking out loud)
Informative and insightful presentation! Thanks for that.
She's hypnotic in every way,just gorgeous inside and out....
How I would love to sit with Alice and discuss some of this kind of stuff (David Attenborough too!). Fascinating!
Great presentation. I learned a lot. Would love to go to Britain to see your museums.
We all have a favorite teacher...
The Archer's shoulder abnormalities were most likely from the physical stresses of being an archer. As a former longbow archer, myself, i lean toward this. At an annual physical, my new doctor saw a huge lump on my right scapula and stated i had a large fatty tumor. :) it was not. It was a large knot of muscle.
Fantastic lecture, thanks!
Great stuff Alice.
absolutely wonderful
I love listening to her
Ahh man Dr Alice Roberts is absolutely gorgeous, warm, adorable"
She certainly is Terry. She blows away the well held belief that only frumpy old spinsters become leading female academics. More than once she has been described as the thinking mans pin up and rightly so. Her lectures and TV programmes are a mind stimulating and jaw dropping experience. Tim Birch describes her as a national treasure and I completely agree.
She is hot
@@voodooo69 "she's steaming hot"
You're Shore ii See Red?!
📹 this video is very well explained, helpful, interesting and insightful. 💡
Muito obrigado for sharing 🤝
Well done. Justly deserving of recognition for your engaging and always intetresting commentry. Never quite sure what your actul hair colour is (reddish?) but that's an irrelevant aside :)
Alice is wonderful. I don't completely understand my relation to the Archer ,but Genetic Distance of 15.414 with my dna makes him especially interesting to me.
I was due to go to the talk with Alice tonight but I came down really unwell with a migraine 😫. I would love her to know how gutted I am, I bought tickets as soon as they were relased and I'm completely gutted
Just reading your Ancestors book, love your non tv language too :)
Just watched a documentary on BBC4 with Alice Roberts taking up wild swimming. Very talented communicator.
Please, Dr Roberts, create a lecture on the migration of life into the solar system, outside the earth. With all that is going on with space exploration, now would be a great time for public education.
I don't know if you noticed... but humans aren't going. Machines are. Space is ideal for machines. It's less than ideal for humans. Space exploration is a sign of the transhumanism that is coming. We, as a species, are finished. We have to wait for the future to decide what it wants to replace us with.
@@schmetterling4477 Life ... Life will migrate to everywhere it can, even if it has to modify the physical environment.
I adore the vowels!
I have visited the Archer in Salisbury Museum. It makes me very sad to see him and other collections of human bones in museums. I don't believe in an afterlife but one of things that makes us human is our respect for our dead and these burials were certainly made with respect forthe deceased.
After examination, I believe that the dead should be reinterred, the way we do when more modern crematories are excavated.
I’m halfway reading the excellent book Ancestors.
I dreamt about hanging out with David once, I think I mentioned I was a fan to someone but didn't want to bother him and the next thing I know and we were just hanging out doing something forgotten now but of course bizarre,. I specifically remember how well we got on, like kindred spirits really. He had so much time for me and passion, somehow I matched it although I can't recall it now. As I dredge up this memory I'm beginning to remember he was interested in some antique valuable I had and took time out to advise me. Remarkable guy, can't speak highly enough of him. Hopefully I'll meet him again and I can ask him about his evolutionary beliefs and what not, rather than whatever antique we discussed.
I almost run David over some years ago when driving past the British Museum in London.
Sir David, remember to look both ways when crossing the road, especially in busy traffic. I know the Cabbies knew who you were and stopped but the rest of us mere mortals don't recognize you immediately.
I've fancied Alice for 20 years, attractive and intelligent, a woman with an interest and passion that isn't herself. A rare woman indeed.
I totally agree with you. Great scientist and wonderful woman. Yes, her passion is not herself ! I am perhaps a bit too emotional when thinking Alice is kind of female prometheus.
I fell in love with Alice when she was still digging ditches for Time Team, in her bright scarlet-dyed hair. She certainly does know how to convey history to the public in an exciting and entertaining way. AND she can dig ditches. You said it - a rare woman!
Your last sentence let you down unfortunately, but apart from that I totally agree
@@johngreen4683 do you meet a lot of women that have passions outside themselves and family then?
@@MassiveLib I'd suggest you get out more and extend the range of people you know and associate with, you'd be really surprised at what's going on out there and the huge changes that have happened and are happening in the wider world.
Brilliant for a professor,,
Thank you for this and your indie-SAGE work too. One of my favourite humans. Be well and stay safe.
Edit - before they built the industrial estate over the Amesbury archers grave site we used to walk our terrier I lived in Amesbury way back then.
Her book is also well worth reading 😃
Now there's an Alice I'd like to live next door to! :-)
Have the bronze knives been analysed to find out where the copper came from? It might be from Austria too like the copper in bronze artifacts in Sweden have been shown to be. People must have traveled the Rhine then as now.
Fantastic communicator. Dx
Wonderful show! XOXOXO
Professor Alice Roberts, a most beautiful intelligent engaging woman, I could spend the rest of my life in her company and still would want more.
Awesome x
If the Smith/Archer was the one to bring metal working to the community it would not be so surprising to find three bronze knives perhaps?
Brilliant
here because sir david. started w/ants. what a journey. hate to think of this as just another piltdown man.
Lovely!
Really interesting. Curious to know what happened to the dead ...who were not buried if burial was so rare?
I think for a long time sky burials (open air) were the norm.
Lovely talk, Alice... diolch yn fawr....
could you tell us how long the latest replacement will take .
You will have to experience the full swing. Unfortunately.
Speaking of ancient history:
Q - Has Alice ever shared a stage with GRAHAM HANCOCK?
No reputable scientist would share a stage with that charlatan, except to easily debunk his idiotic fantasies. That would be like asking a leading neurosurgeon to share a stage with a tv evangelist selling magic oil. It's an insult to science and humanity.
@@garykeenan8591 Speaking of "insults", RU familiar w/ what an AD HOMINEM is? lol! Apparently not. Anyone, inc. the likes of lovely Dr. Alice, who refuses, or otherwise declines 2 share a stage with HANCOCK, only comes across as a coward, lacking confidence in their own est. theories, and ability 2 debate. Score ONE point for Mr. Hancock.
Doc, I have discovered there are two reality time's two TWO seconds apart like the pressure wave on a wing but in time.
Religion and social status is overstated in anthropology,it had an influence,it was not a priority for people in prehistory,only as the Neolithic progressed was it relevant ❤️
How could you possibly know that?
Congratulations.
We are all glorified chimps except for Professor Alice . She's just glorious in every way. ( Do bear in mind that we are all dirty shitters though lol).
Chimps perform magick
F Yeah baby
The cutest and prettiest Professor I have ever seen. And smart as well. Wow. Is she married?
Could the Amesbury Archer be related to Ötzi the Iceman, who was recovered from the Italian Alps in 1991?
Ötzi is about 1000 years older I think. It would be interesting to see an isotope analysis of the archers daggers to see if the copper in them is from Austria. Bronze artifacts in Sweden were tested and the copper in them was not locally sourced, it was from Austria or thereabout.
Dr. Roberts:
I consider that we were in low oxygenated water. We had to fan our gills to assist in oxygen intake.
Considering how we fan our hands when strumming a guitar this is similar to fanning our hands to supply music to our ears as our ears once anatomically were gills.
Furthermore I believe we took the initiative in these depleted oxygen environments to suck oxygen into our early developing lungs by way of depleting water oxygenation through the available swamp reeds.
It is this same drawing in by way of smoking cigarettes or cigars or even a PIPE or playing a flute or trumpet or blown a bungle or hearing bagpipes play that fullfill's our soul.
Additionally while straining to keep our head above water so to speak we may of had our feet planted in the mud which much like the DEAD SEA MUD therapy or Japanese Foot Patches.
Why:
Because a Comet came through the skies and knocked over all the trees making surface breathing difficult so being wise we sucked air through gaps or even reeds or hollowed tree branches. The air so depleted of oxygen to begin with because of volcanic activity
Why:
Because of Earth's changing electro magnetic fields
Why:
Because Comets being heavy metals will alter course and crash into Earth. Kind of like opposite poles attract
Therefore Miss Pagan Red Head:
God Exist.
I am not scare of anything but for you should be considered Charles Wooley's replacement.
Where did the picts come from ? What was their name for themselves?
I'm so happy for you dear because your ancestors are not rocks they are spirits. cheers
Everybody fancies Alice Roberts. Fascinating science stuff too. Well deserved award etc etc.
Dr. Roberts I am pretty sure we've lost our animal brain wave communication abilities because we developed an audible language.
CAN YOU PLEASE DO ANOTHER HUMAN JOURNEY INCORPORATING "YOUNGER DRYAS" PLEASE ?
Good vid, but a little ironic she gets a David Attenborough award after being so critical of him when he proposed some ideas about a potential water ape a few years ago
I would hope that scientists can respect each other's work even if we don't agree
I presume the Beaker peoples must have had fairly developed languages, as it would have been difficult to transfer knowledge about metallurgy solely by demonstrations.
You see a Teacher! Sharing her tea with kids kinders and children! i know that's an old tea sharing stilus style! Very very ancient tea procedure! No Muchi no Uchi no Goochi Moguchiy style! True true Magic! Oh yeah tortilla and bonuses! WOW! And where is Mu continent? No problems with LeMuriya as well! Oh yeah. Many many happy returnings to all all ancestors and the professor with estudiantes! Oh yeah the Royal Society! With an Espiritus Santus! Woman!
"ideas don't fossilize" ....unless one is discussing certain....political...positions
Where can we get copies of Alice Roberts sketches, will trade some old da vinci's I have lying about.
i want to be buried with a load of random stuff just to confuse the archaeologists in the future
Oh what you got in mind ? The possibilities are endless.. I'm gonna be pondering this for days 😂😂😂
You'd have to find a skeleton and nick a leg , that's gotta be a must.. 🦵🦵🦵
Diabolical.....lol
Given the inability of young people to ask questions which is the precursor to building Connectivity which in essense is the size of the mind in the brain. regardless the actual volume of many people's skulls a lack of problem solving ability denotes an undeveloped mind. As suggested by Carlton Coon.
Yes flood is a good word to use here as the flood of evidence removes the mythology and dogma of Christendom for good. Once away from the control of those Abrahamic faith systems, science could mature and go on. It is my personal belief that mankind is far older than is thought even now. I also believe that mankind came about not just on one continent but possibly three. I don't have evidence for this theory but I think things are moving in a direction that more will be uncovered and surprise everyone.
I want a full haplogroup analysis when I get my genetic test. Can anyone recommend a good, academic-level, one? I’m female, but I also want to get my elderly father tested.
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Alice, who built the megalithic structures we see all over the world between the Tropics. Great Pyramid, Easter Island, Baalbek, Peruvian highlands etc etc. Who,,,Alice,,and WHEN ??? Go on, give us the Royal Institution version.
And why are the ancient structures in the British Isles and Northern Europe older than the pyramids. Naughty Alice. Its all west to east. Truth will out 🙏🏻