Christmas Lectures 2018: What Makes Me Human? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght

In the second lecture of the 2018 Christmas Lectures Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore human evolution.
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Alice Roberts is the 2018 Christmas Lecturer, a biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster. She is professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham.
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Aoife McLysaght is the Genetics Society Guest Lecturer for the 2018 Christmas Lectures and Head of the Genetics Department at Trinity College Dublin, where she has led a research group focusing on Molecular Evolution since 2003.
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