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Your Inner Fish

Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys

Because of our evolutionary relationship, we have quite a bit in common with other living primates, including squirrel monkeys. See what we mean as you watch these agile monkeys navigate their forest world.

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Your Inner Monkey

Your Inner Monkey

Season 1 Episode 3

Your Inner Monkey

Find out which beneficial traits our primate progenitors bequeathed us.

Your Inner Reptile

Your Inner Reptile

Season 1 Episode 2

Your Inner Reptile

Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.

Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish

Season 1 Episode 1

Your Inner Fish

See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own DNA.