Neil Shubin
Director
Your Inner Fish (2014)
Season 1
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.
Released April 9, 2014
Episode 59 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.fish-in-title, imdb.evolution, tmdb.evrim
Production Companies: Windfall Films, Tangled Bank Studios
Network: Discovery Science
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Your Inner Fish
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.
April 9, 2014, midnight
S1E2 - Your Inner Reptile
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.
April 16, 2014, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
April 23, 2014, midnight
Network: Discovery Science
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Season Runtime: 177 min.
Released: April 9, 2014
Last Air Date: April 23, 2014, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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