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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

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55:11
Your Inner Reptile

Your Inner Reptile

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54:46
Your Inner Monkey

Your Inner Monkey

Season 1 Episode 3
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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 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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