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How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
Season 6
Episode 15
For some, the rise and spread of venomous elapids was just another challenge to adapt to. For others, it was a catastrophe of almost apocalyptic proportions. And we humans are no exception, because it seems that when elapids slithered onto the ecological scene, not even our ancestors were safe…
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9:45
How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive?
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10:21
Did you know volcanoes created the Atlantic Ocean that we know today?
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8:04
Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…
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10:46
Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"?
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10:18
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place?
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9:34
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7:59
When did we start practicing medicine in its varied, complex forms?
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12:07
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11:57
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9:41
Paranthropus lived alongside our ancestors. If we are still here, why aren’t they?
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8:42
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