Premiered April 2014
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 were in your family tree. The three-part series premiered April 9, 2014.
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 were in your family tree. The three-part series premiered April 9, 2014.
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Find out which beneficial traits our primate progenitors bequeathed us.
Your Inner Monkey
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Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.
Your Inner Reptile
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What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?
Teeth are an incredbily important tool for understanding how an animal lives.
What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?
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