Your inner fish | how do we know when our ancestors lost their tails? | episode 3


Your inner fish | how do we know when our ancestors lost their tails? | episode 3

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Clip: Episode 3 | 4m Paleontologist Holly Dunsworth shows us fossil evidence for the disappearance of our tail. Unlike most other primates, apes don't have a tail. When did our


ancestors lose this potentially useful appendage? Paleoanthropologist Holly Dunsworth introduces Neil Shubin to Proconsul, a fossil ape that provides some answers to that question. Aired


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