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Your Inner Fish Season 1
54:40
Find out which beneficial traits our primate progenitors bequeathed us.
Your Inner Reptile
54:46
Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.
Your Inner Fish
55:11
See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own DNA.
Series Preview
4:30
Our body is the legacy of our ancient animal ancestors. Meet them in this series.
Episode 3: Your Inner Monkey Preview
0:30
Find out which traits our primate progenitors bequeathed to us.
Episode 2: Your Inner Reptile - Preview
0:30
Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.
Your Inner Fish - Preview
0:30
How did the human body become the complicated, quirky and amazing machine it is today?
We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With
4:10
Opossums and fossils provide evidence for the evolution of our ears.
Ancient Hands, Ancient Tools
4:35
Join a hunt for ancient tools and look for evidence of toolmaking in fossil hands.
The Human Hand: A Gift from Ancient Primates
4:26
Meet an ancient primate with a hand eerily similar to your own.
Ancient Human Ancestors: Walking in the Woods
3:47
"Ardi" changed our understanding of how our ancestors first started walking on two legs.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy
4:54
Don Johanson recounts the discovery of an iconic human ancestor in Ethiopia.
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