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What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?
Teeth are an incredbily important tool for understanding how an animal lives.
Finding the Origins of Human Color Vision
Our color vision is a gift from tree-dwelling primate ancestors in search of ripe fruit.
Tim White gives an overview of the discovery of a hominid fossil known as Ardi.
Join a hunt for ancient tools and look for evidence of toolmaking in fossil hands.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy
Don Johanson recounts the discovery of an iconic human ancestor in Ethiopia.
The 500-Million-Year History of the Human Brain
Biologist Peter Holland shows us how much we have in common with a wormy little animal.
Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
As Bruce Latimer explains, our evolutionary history has some consequences for our back.
Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys
Our relationship to living primates can be seen in their anatomy and genes.
Episode 3: Your Inner Monkey Preview
Find out which traits our primate progenitors bequeathed to us.
Ancient Human Ancestors: Walking in the Woods
"Ardi" changed our understanding of how our ancestors first started walking on two legs.
How Do We Know When Our Ancestors Lost Their Tails?
Paleontologist Holly Dunsworth shows us fossil evidence for the disappearance of our tail.
The Human Hand: A Gift from Ancient Primates
Meet an ancient primate with a hand eerily similar to your own.
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