Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish

2014 1 Seasons
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.

Seasons

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1. Your Inner Fish

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 mil…

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2. Your Inner Reptile

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 live…

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3. Your Inner Monkey

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 lega…

Top Cast

Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin

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