Dr Alice Roberts: Anatomist, author, broadcaster and distinguished supporter of Humanism". British Humanist Association . Retrieved 28 November 2013. Mary Anning: Lyme Regis fossil hunter's statue unveiled". BBC News. 22 May 2022 . Retrieved 25 May 2022. She spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, receiving the degree in 2008. [5] [7] [13] She was a senior teaching fellow at the University of Bristol Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, where her main roles were teaching clinical anatomy, embryology and physical anthropology, as well as researching osteoarchaeology and paleopathology. [7] [10] [14] She stated in 2009 that she was working towards becoming a professor of anatomy. [15] And then when we're looking for solutions in a similar way, to do that as objectively as possible and to strip away ideology. And I feel in the UK that we've particularly been very ideology-driven. This “following the science thing is not true at all, we've been following an ideology, and trying to shoehorn the science into that. There's always kind of worries about what's going to happen to science in a time of crisis, that we're depending on it so much. And that if there is, if there's any kind of nuance, or uncertainty around various facts and figures, then, you know, the public might feel uneasy about that, or anxious about that. And I think that's, I don't think that's the reason to pretend that the evidence is either more robust or more certain than we know it to be. I think the absolute fundamental point is that we need to maintain trust, and that we need to, we need scientists who are engaging with the public in a very level way. Roberts writes with an evangelical atheist pre-load. Her dialogue is sharp, pointy, and guaranteed to make you wonder what happened. She just can't let it go. Unfortunately, the trite flurries are non-value added. These can and likely have driven a reader away before the books merits can be plumbed. The author works the lather to a zenith by Ch.4. Nobody cares that the author is an atheist, humanist and angry with 'church'.

Yeah, well, I was brought up in a quite devoutly religious family. So I got taken to church, pretty much every Sunday, and to Sunday school. And brought up with no kind of idea that there was really anything else on offer. And I went as far as getting confirmed. So I think I got confirmed when I was about 14.If you’re interested in prehistory, and if you happen to be in the Cotswolds, you’re in the perfect place because you’ve got so much. One of my favourite things is to go for walks – I’m constantly dragging my children along. And walk isn’t a walk without a monument.

It’s an even more recent breakthrough that particularly fascinates her: ancient genomics. The science of reading ancient DNA. As an aside, not in her book, I note that social gender categories often follow linguistic gender categories. Linguistic gender is the way that words are tied together by categorising the things they represent, thus nouns are tied to pronouns by gender, and both are tied to adjectives in many European languages. The language of the Beaker People was a variant of Proto-Indo-European, which had two linguistic genders -- animate and inanimate. Perhaps the important divide for the Beaker people was into animate/singular and neuter/collective, rather than owned wealth or male/female?) Alice Roberts is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. She has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham since 2012. Roberts has been President of the charity Humanists the UK since 2019, which campaigns for state secularism and for “a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail”. Early life Name Maybe if they’d been excavated 150 years ago, archaeologists would have been saying: This is definitely a man; must have been a chieftain.’

One of many fascinations of Alice’s writing is the description of the radiocarbon-dating revolution, first developed in the 40s. Prior to that, archaeologists had to piece together, as well as they could, the ages of artefacts and bones through their relative position in the ground, or by comparing styles. Today, that technology is even more advanced: Alice’s friend and colleague Professor Alistair Pike, based at Southampton University, has now dated cave paintings in Iberia to at least 25,000 years before the arrival of modern humans. In other words, Alice explains, ‘Neanderthals were cave-painting 60,000 years ago. Just unbelievable.’ Pearson, Mike Parker; Pollard, Josh; Richards, Colin; Welham, Kate; Kinnaird, Timothy; Shaw, Dave; Simmons, Ellen; Stanford, Adam; Bevins, Richard; Ixer, Rob; Ruggles, Clive; Rylatt, Jim; Edinborough, Kevan (February 2021). "The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales". Antiquity. 95 (379): 85–103. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.239. Alice May Roberts FRSB (born 19 May 1973) [2] is an English academic, TV presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was president of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. [3] She is now a vice president of the organisation. [4] Early life and education [ edit ]

Research". alice-roberts.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009 . Retrieved 16 October 2009.Roberts lives with her husband, David Stevens, and two children, a daughter born in 2010 and a son born in 2013. [74] She met her husband in Cardiff in 1995 when she was a medical student and he was an archaeology student. [75] [5] They married in 2009. [76] a b c "University of Bristol: Directory of Experts". University of Bristol . Retrieved 27 May 2009.

In the first episode, Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey. a b c d e f "Staff: Dr Alice May Roberts MB BCh BSc PhD". University of Bristol. 24 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009 . Retrieved 29 May 2009. She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. [43] The last part of this series featured Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa. Roberts, Alice May (2008). Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes: a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Bristol. OCLC 931580371. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.492449. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018 . Retrieved 1 November 2018. And also, the other thing for me is that I feel very much that it's rather like that idea that you should travel and you should experience other cultures, because that makes you look at yourself in an objective way. And it makes you look at your own culture in an objective way. And it also makes you realise that you have this commonality with humans the world over, you know, that we're all very, very similar.An archaeology that – as technology advances almost into the realms of sci-fi – increasingly doesn’t need words inscribed on wax tablets to tell the stories of humans who lived thousands of years BCE. On the surface, this is a book about a few selected burials in the area that is now the UK. The burials are described in detail, as is the history of their discovery, excavation and the theories around them. There are very few pictures in the book -- really just a few paintings by Alice Roberts herself. This is a good thing, because it means she has to paint word pictures of the burials, and her writing is beautiful. a b Hogan, Michael (13 August 2010). "Digging for history... but it's not Time Team". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 13 July 2011.