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Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish

2014•59m•Documentary
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It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates, the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree. Our bodies carry the anatomical legacy of animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

StatusEnded
Runtime59m
LanguageEN
First Air DateApr 9, 2014

Episodes

E159m

Your Inner Fish

In the opening episode, Neil journeys from an American highway to the Arctic Circle to connect our lungs, arms, legs and hands to a prehistoric fish that crawled onto land 375 million years ago.

Apr 9, 2014

E259m

Your Inner Reptile

Episode 2 traces our hair, skin, teeth, jaws and sense of hearing back to reptilian ancestors - from ferocious beasts that ruled the Earth, to a little shrew-like animal that lived 195 million years ago.

Apr 16, 2014

E359m

Your Inner Monkey

In the final episode, Neil tracks our hands, feet, colour vision, spine and upright gait to our primate and hominid progenitors, who also passed on perhaps the most important legacy of all - a path to the human brain.

Apr 23, 2014

Actors

Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin

Self - Presenter

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