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The Genes We Lost Along the Way

The Genes We Lost Along the Way

Season 3 Episode 36
12:01
How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

Season 3 Episode 38
9:42
When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

Season 3 Episode 41
9:08
How To Survive the Little Ice Age

How To Survive the Little Ice Age

Season 3 Episode 42
10:00
When Trees Took Over the World

When Trees Took Over the World

Season 3 Episode 43
7:28
How Weasels Got Skinny

How Weasels Got Skinny

Season 3 Episode 44
9:01
Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Season 3 Episode 45
7:21
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When We First Talked

Season 3 Episode 34

The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s taken several million years to get to this moment where we can tell you about how it took several million years for us to get here.

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Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
9:41
Paranthropus lived alongside our ancestors. If we are still here, why aren’t they?
How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
8:42
Exoskeleton fragments may have allowed microbes to sail the ocean and change the world.
Why Only Earth Has Fire
10:45
Fire only exists only on Earth because fire can’t exist without life.
Beans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
7:09
Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans.
The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
8:58
Graptolites show us how unpredictable the Silurian period really could be.
When Did We Stop Being Naked?
9:05
How can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes?
Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
7:50
From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
You're Living On An Ant Planet
9:14
How did ants take over the world?
That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
9:31
This is how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period.
Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?
8:03
What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland?
We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
8:10
About 6,000 years ago, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush savannah in Africa.
Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck
9:01
The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution really works.
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