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Find out which beneficial traits our primate progenitors bequeathed us.

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Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.

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See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own DNA.

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Our body is the legacy of our ancient animal ancestors. Meet them in this series.

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Find out which traits our primate progenitors bequeathed to us.

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Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.

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How did the human body become the complicated, quirky and amazing machine it is today?

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Opossums and fossils provide evidence for the evolution of our ears.

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Join a hunt for ancient tools and look for evidence of toolmaking in fossil hands.

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Meet an ancient primate with a hand eerily similar to your own.

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"Ardi" changed our understanding of how our ancestors first started walking on two legs.

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Don Johanson recounts the discovery of an iconic human ancestor in Ethiopia.