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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

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Your Inner Monkey

Find out which beneficial traits our primate progenitors bequeathed us.

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Season 1 Episode 2

Your Inner Reptile

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

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Your Inner Fish

Season 1 Episode 1

Your Inner Fish

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