Professor Alice Roberts takes the audience on a journey from the first spark of life on Earth to the evolution and connectivity of all living things, exploring the story of humanity and early civilisations.
Prof Alice Roberts brings From Cell to Civilisation to Usher Hall on Tuesday 10 November, a talk that starts at the very beginning of life on Earth and works its way forward to where we are now.
She takes the audience back 3.8 billion years to the first spark of life, tracing the evolution and connectivity of all living things from that single point. From there, she follows the story of humanity as it moves out of Africa, through Asia, around the Indian coastline to Australia, then north into Europe and Siberia and finally across to the Americas. Along the way, she meets other human species that existed alongside us, so it's not just a story of one line of descent, but of a wider, more crowded family tree than most of us imagine.
Beyond the migration, the talk looks at the sophistication of some of the earliest civilisations and considers how science can answer the questions people have always asked: who we are, where we come from and what it means to be human. It's a long view of our species, from the first cells to the complex societies we've built since.
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It starts at 7.30pm and should finish around 10.15pm, so it's a full evening. Tickets start from £51.50, which includes a 10% per-ticket booking fee, and it's for over 8s only.
