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Your Inner Fish: An Evolution Story

Neil Shubin

David Dugan

Michael Rosenfeld

Your Inner Fish: An Evolution Story: Episode 1: Your Inner Fish

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Your Inner Fish

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Episode 1: Your Inner Fish

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How our bodies link to a prehistoric fish that crawled onto land 375 million years ago.

Neil Shubin travels from America to the Arctic Circle to connect our lungs, arms, legs and hands to a prehistoric fish that crawled onto land 375 million years ago.

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.

Journeying to the Arctic, South Africa and Ethiopia, Neil uncovers an astonishing story spanning hundreds of millions of years, a tale full of strange facts and remarkable insights. Using fossils, embryos and genes, each of the three episodes focuses on a key transitional moment in the evolution of the human body - moving from the sea to land, relocating from the shore to living in trees, and coming down from the trees to walk upright on two legs. 

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.

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Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates.

Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates.

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