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Alice Roberts

Born

in Bristol, The United Kingdom

May 19, 1973

Website

http://www.alice-roberts.co.uk/

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Genre

Science, Anthropology, Archaeology

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Alice May Roberts is an English anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, television presenter and author.

Roberts studied medicine and anatomy at Cardiff University, qualifying in 1997 as a physician with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BCh) degree, having gained an intercalated Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy. She earned a PhD in paleopathology in 2008 from the University of Bristol.

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Alice Roberts’s books

Average rating: 4.06 · 14,361 ratings · 1,663 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials 4.08 avg rating — 3,073 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond 3.96 avg rating — 2,028 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World 4.07 avg rating — 1,695 ratings — published 2017 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain 4.07 avg rating — 1,632 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celts: Search for a Civilization 3.91 avg rating — 1,296 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us 4.16 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Road (Wolf Road #1) 3.96 avg rating — 604 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolution the Human Story 4.30 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Incredible Human Journey 4.14 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies 3.85 avg rating — 183 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Alice Roberts

Wolf Road (2 books)
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Alice Roberts,

Keith Robinson (Illustrator)

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Quotes by Alice Roberts (?)

“If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.”
― Alice Roberts, The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

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“a human baby is born expecting culture just as a fish is born expecting water.”
― Alice Roberts, The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

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“even been suggested that the eventual domestication of cereals in this area could have grown from a culture which invested heavily, not in bread-making, but in beer-brewing – and that alcohol could have flowed freely, greasing the wheels of social intercourse, at these ancient feasts.”
― Alice Roberts, Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World

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