Your Inner Fish: The Series | HHMI BioInteractive

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Feature Film

Episode 1: Your Inner Fish

(54 min 41 sec) See how the genetic legacy of a fish can be seen today in our own DNA. PLEASE NOTE: Due to international distribution restrictions, these programs can only be streamed in the United States and Canada.
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Feature Film

Episode 2: Your Inner Reptile

(54 min 41 sec) Join Neil Shubin as he links our hair, teeth and hearing to ancient reptilian ancestors. PLEASE NOTE: Due to international distribution restrictions, these programs can only be streamed in the United States and Canada.
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Feature Film

Episode 3: Your Inner Monkey

(54 min 51 sec) Join Neil Shubin as he links our hands, vision, and brains to ancient primate ancestors. PLEASE NOTE: Due to international distribution restrictions, these programs can only be streamed in the United States and Canada.
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Film Guide

Film Guide: Your Inner Fish

This guide complements the three-part television series Your Inner Fish. This series describes the legacy of our ancient animal ancestors and the evidence of their relationship to us.
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Short Film

Great Transitions: The Origin of Tetrapods

(17 min 11 sec) One of the most exciting discoveries in the long history of fossil exploration is Tiktaalik, a creature with a mix of features common to fish and four-legged animals, or tetrapods.
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Article

It's a Fishapod!

This article by Sean B. Carroll tells the story of the search for and discovery of Tiktaalik, an animal with a mix of fish and tetrapod features—a fishapod! It supplements the short film Great Transitions: The Origin of Tetrapods, starring Neil Shubin.
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Click & Learn

Explore Your Inner Animals

This interactive explores different anatomical features of the human body and what they reveal about the evolutionary history we share with other organisms, including earlier, long-extinct species.
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Click & Learn

Skeletons Reveal Human and Chimpanzee Evolution

Comparing features of a 4.4-million-year-old fossil skeleton to those of human and chimpanzee skeletons sheds light on our evolutionary history.
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COLLECTION

The Making of the Fittest

This series of short films has been crafted to engage students with memorable examples of the evolutionary process in action.
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COLLECTION

The Origin of Species

The richness and diversity of life raises two of the most profound questions in biology: How do new species form? And, why are there so many species?