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Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
As Bruce Latimer explains, our evolutionary history has some consequences for our back.
Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
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Our body is the legacy of our ancient animal ancestors. Meet them in this series.
How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this new look at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates - the ancestors you never knew - are in your family tree.
How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this new look at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates - the ancestors you never knew - are in your family tree.
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Our body is the legacy of our ancient animal ancestors. Meet them in this series.
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See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own DNA.
Your Inner Fish
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Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
As Bruce Latimer explains, our evolutionary history has some consequences for our back.
Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
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