Extras
What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?
Teeth are an incredbily important tool for understanding how an animal lives.
What Can Fossil Teeth Tell Us?
Finding the Origins of Human Color Vision
Our color vision is a gift from tree-dwelling primate ancestors in search of ripe fruit.
Finding the Origins of Human Color Vision
Tim White gives an overview of the discovery of a hominid fossil known as Ardi.
Extended Interview: Tim White
Join a hunt for ancient tools and look for evidence of toolmaking in fossil hands.
Ancient Hands, Ancient Tools
Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
As Bruce Latimer explains, our evolutionary history has some consequences for our back.
Your Aching Back: A Gift from Your Ancient Ancestors
Episode 3: Your Inner Monkey Preview
Find out which traits our primate progenitors bequeathed to us.
Episode 3: Your Inner Monkey Preview
Episode 2: Your Inner Reptile - Preview
Learn which parts of our bodies we’ve inherited from our reptilian ancestors.
Episode 2: Your Inner Reptile - Preview
We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With
Opossums and fossils provide evidence for the evolution of our ears.
We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With
Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys
Our relationship to living primates can be seen in their anatomy and genes.
Meet Your Cousins: Squirrel Monkeys
The Human Hand: A Gift from Ancient Primates
Meet an ancient primate with a hand eerily similar to your own.
The Human Hand: A Gift from Ancient Primates
How Do We Know When Our Ancestors Lost Their Tails?
Paleontologist Holly Dunsworth shows us fossil evidence for the disappearance of our tail.
How Do We Know When Our Ancestors Lost Their Tails?
Your teeth can be traced back to reptile-like ancestors who ruled the earth.
The Evolution of Your Teeth
Ancient Human Ancestors: Walking in the Woods
"Ardi" changed our understanding of how our ancestors first started walking on two legs.
Ancient Human Ancestors: Walking in the Woods
The Ancient History of the Human Hand
Trace the human hand back to its fish origins.
The Ancient History of the Human Hand
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tritheledont
Neil Shubin finds a tiny fossil that represents an important time in our evolution.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tritheledont
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tiktaalik
Neil Shubin recounts the discovery of an iconic fish fossil in the Canadian Arctic.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tiktaalik
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy
Don Johanson recounts the discovery of an iconic human ancestor in Ethiopia.
Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Lucy
The 500-Million-Year History of the Human Brain
Biologist Peter Holland shows us how much we have in common with a wormy little animal.
The 500-Million-Year History of the Human Brain
How did the human body become the complicated, quirky and amazing machine it is today?