Prof Alice Roberts - From Cell to Civilisation

Join academic, writer and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at Brisbane City Hall for a fascinating talk on humankind, genetics and archaeology.

This groundbreaking new live show is about us, from single cell to civilisation. Who are we? Where do we come from? What does it mean to be human?

For thousands of years, such questions have been explored through philosophy and religion, but the answers now to lie firmly within the grasp of an empirical approach to the world and our place within it.

By peering deep into our past and dragging clues out into the light, science can now provide us with some of the answers to the questions that people have always asked.

From the first spark of life on earth 3.8 billion years ago, Prof Alice Roberts tracks the evolution and connectivity of all living things. Follow in the footsteps of our ancestors from Africa into Asia and around the Indian coastline, to Australia, north into Europe and Siberia, and, eventually, to the last continents to be peopled: the Americas.

From Cell to Civilisation will examine the sophistication of some of the earliest civilisations, and will discuss how we know what we know and why we think what we think, what the science can tell us.

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