Your Inner Fish

2014•59m

Documentary

It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates, the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree. Our bodies carry the anatomical legacy of animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

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Production

Windfall Films, Tangled Bank Studios

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

April 9, 2014

Last Aired

April 23, 2014

Networks

PBS, BBC Four, YouTube, Discovery Science

Created By

Neil Shubin

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Your Inner Fish

Air date: 2014-04-09

In the opening episode, Neil journeys from an American highway to the Arctic Circle to connect our lungs, arms, legs and hands to a prehistoric fish that crawled onto land 375 million years ago.

Your Inner Reptile

Air date: 2014-04-16

Episode 2 traces our hair, skin, teeth, jaws and sense of hearing back to reptilian ancestors - from ferocious beasts that ruled the Earth, to a little shrew-like animal that lived 195 million years ago.

Your Inner Monkey

Air date: 2014-04-23

In the final episode, Neil tracks our hands, feet, colour vision, spine and upright gait to our primate and hominid progenitors, who also passed on perhaps the most important legacy of all - a path to the human brain.