Alice Roberts

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can…

— Alice Roberts

Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past…

— Alice Roberts

Easter is an ancient festival of rebirth, but it's also an excellent excuse for eating eggs. I really like eggs, of both…

— Alice Roberts

We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work…

— Alice Roberts

Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview…

— Alice Roberts

It seems that humans have been enjoying the taste and health benefits of blackberries for thousands of years. Gathered blackberries have been…

— Alice Roberts

The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly…

— Alice Roberts

As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much…

— Alice Roberts

In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays…

— Alice Roberts

One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn't an…

— Alice Roberts

Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body…

— Alice Roberts

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to…

— Alice Roberts

There should be regulation that prevents all schools, not just state schools, from teaching creationism because it is indoctrination, it is planting…

— Alice Roberts

I know a bit about vertebrate anatomy and I'd like to think that I'd spot if a skeleton was entirely fabricated or…

— Alice Roberts

In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its…

— Alice Roberts

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is…

— Alice Roberts

I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond…

— Alice Roberts

So I had this fascination with old bones and being able to diagnose disease in old bones. And I was doing that,…

— Alice Roberts

Later, I found it too hard to give up, and so I've continued eating fish and other seafood, while trying to ensure…

— Alice Roberts

Our ape legs make us great generalists - we can walk, run and climb. But when you try to do too many…

— Alice Roberts