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Your Inner Fish

Ancient Hands, Ancient Tools

After searching for some of the first stone tools made by our ancestors, Neil Shubin pays a visit to paleoanthropologist Tracy Kivell, who shows us how changes in the hands of our ancestors led to the ability to create and use tools.

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