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Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors

Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors

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How Do We Know When Our Ancestors Lost Their Tails?

How Do We Know When Our Ancestors Lost Their Tails?

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Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tiktaalik

Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tiktaalik

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The Evolution of Your Teeth

The Evolution of Your Teeth

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Finding the Origins of Human Color Vision

Finding the Origins of Human Color Vision

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We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With

We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With

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What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?

What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?

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The Ancient History of the Human Hand

The Ancient History of the Human Hand

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Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tritheledont

Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tritheledont

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Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy

Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy

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Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys

Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys

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Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish

Season 1 Episode 1
55:11
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Your Inner Fish

The 500-Million-Year History of the Human Brain

Even though your brain enables you to do some amazing things, its evolutionary story runs deep. Biologists Peter Holland and Neil Shubin go hunting for Amphioxus, a tiny, simple animal, whose genes show us just how ancient our brain truly is.
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Your Inner Monkey
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
55:11
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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