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Your Inner Fish

How Do We Know When Our Ancestors Lost Their Tails?

Unlike most other primates, apes don't have a tail. When did our ancestors lose this potentially useful appendage? Paleoanthropologist Holly Dunsworth introduces Neil Shubin to Proconsul, a fossil ape that provides some answers to that question.
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Your Inner Fish Season 1
54:40
Season 1 Episode 3
Your Inner Monkey
Find out which beneficial traits our primate progenitors bequeathed us.
Your Inner Reptile
54:46
Season 1 Episode 2
Your Inner Reptile
Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.
Your Inner Fish
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Season 1 Episode 1
Your Inner Fish
See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own DNA.
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