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Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.
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How did the human body become the complicated, quirky and amazing machine it is today?
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Find out which traits our primate progenitors bequeathed to us.
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Meet an ancient primate with a hand eerily similar to your own.
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"Ardi" changed our understanding of how our ancestors first started walking on two legs.
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Biologist Peter Holland shows us how much we have in common with a wormy little animal.
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Our relationship to living primates can be seen in their anatomy and genes.
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Neil Shubin finds a tiny fossil that represents an important time in our evolution.
