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1 " 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
2 " Perhaps the Romans were right to be wary of the formidable females of Britain -wise women, prophetesses, priestesses, Ladies, Queens; we'll never capture exactly how they saw themselves and how their communities saw them, but they appear charismatic, formidable, powerful even in death. "
― Alice Roberts , Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
3 " a human baby is born expecting culture just as a fish is born expecting water. "
4 " 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
5 " Most chickens, though, grow fast – and are slaughtered at just six weeks old. When we eat chickens, they’re really just overblown, overgrown, big chicks. The ends of their bones haven’t even begun to turn from cartilage to bone yet. A single great-grandmother hen, back in the pedigree flock, can have an astonishing 3 million broiler-chicken descendants – who never make it to adulthood. "
6 " Humans have always been – as Rutherford so neatly encapsulates it – both ‘horny and mobile’. "
7 " Our visits to museums, to gaze on such human remains, are a form of ancestor worship. "
― Alice Roberts
8 " Tis the sublime of Man,Our noontide majesty, to know ourselvesParts and proportions of a wondrous whole’ COLERIDGE At the end of this anatomical journey you can look at your hand and see not only something which developed out of a minute limb bud in your own developing embryo, but something which evolved from a fish’s fin, over millions of years and millions of generations. "
9 " Nor,’ he added, almost with a glint in his eye, ‘have I been disappointed. "
