In Our Time is a Talk Show programme.

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In Our Time: The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

Series 1, episode 0

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest changes in the history of life on Earth. Around 400 million years ago some of man's ancestors, the fish, started to become a little more like humans. At the swampy margins between land and water, some fish were turning their fins into limbs, their swim bladders into lungs and developed necks and eventually they became tetrapods, the group to which all animals with backbones and limbs belong. With that development came an explosion in the diversity of life on Earth

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Melvyn Bragg