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The Human Hand: A Gift from Ancient Primates
4:26
Meet an ancient primate with a hand eerily similar to your own.
Ancient Human Ancestors: Walking in the Woods
3:47
"Ardi" changed our understanding of how our ancestors first started walking on two legs.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy
4:54
Don Johanson recounts the discovery of an iconic human ancestor in Ethiopia.
Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys
2:05
Our relationship to living primates can be seen in their anatomy and genes.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tritheledont
4:05
Neil Shubin finds a tiny fossil that represents an important time in our evolution.
What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?
1:59
Teeth are an incredbily important tool for understanding how an animal lives.
The Ancient History of the Human Hand
3:52
Trace the human hand back to its fish origins.
Finding the Origins of Human Color Vision
4:41
Our color vision is a gift from tree-dwelling primate ancestors in search of ripe fruit.
Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
2:52
As Bruce Latimer explains, our evolutionary history has some consequences for our back.
Our Fishy Brain
2:24
See just how much your brain has in common with a fish brain.
We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With
4:10
Opossums and fossils provide evidence for the evolution of our ears.
Extended Interview: Tim White
6:47
Tim White gives an overview of the discovery of a hominid fossil known as Ardi.
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