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When We Tamed Fire
Season 2
Episode 18
The ability to make and use fire has fundamentally changed the arc of our evolution. The bodies we have today were, in many ways, shaped by that time when we first tamed fire.
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The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution really works.
8:03
In between two islands of Indonesia, there’s a line that is both real and not real.
8:40
From an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?
8:52
For plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better
9:54
A new group of predators began to hunt nautiloids
9:11
Some of the most important genes were once considered genomic junk.
9:57
How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm?
10:42
Our brains actually shrank relative to our bodies in evolution.
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Hidden in rocks may have animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.
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Hidden in rocks may have animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.