3. Your Inner Monkey
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.
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Your Inner Fish is a documentary TV series that premiered on BBC Four on April 9, 2014. It has 1 season and 3 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 3 "Your Inner Monkey", aired on April 23, 2014.
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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3 episodes · 1 season
2014 · 3 episodes · Last episode: 12 years ago
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.
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.
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.
Created by Neil Shubin
Your Inner Fish has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on April 23, 2014.
The most recent episode of Your Inner Fish, Season 1 Episode 3 "Your Inner Monkey", aired on April 23, 2014.
Your Inner Fish has 1 season with 3 episodes in total.
Your Inner Fish first aired on BBC Four on April 9, 2014.
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