Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Your Inner Fish / a production of Tangled Bank Studios, LLC and Windfall Films, Ltd. ; directors, Tom Cook and Alex Tate ; senior producer, David Elisco.

Publisher, Date:

[Alexandria, Virginia] : PBS, [2014]

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

wide screen

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Examines the many ways that our animal ancestors shaped our anatomical destiny. Using both the fossil record and DNA evidence, traces various parts of the human body's structure to creatures that lived long, long, ago.

Target Audience Note:

TV Parental Guidelines Rating: TV-PG.

Series:

WGBY DVD Collection

Subjects:

Shubin, Neil -- Television adaptations.

Human anatomy.

Human evolution.

Human beings -- Origin.

Genre:

Science television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Television mini-series.

Other Author:

Cook, Tom (Director), television director.

Tate, Alex, television director.

Elisco, David, television producer.

Shubin, Neil, host.

Based on (work): Shubin, Neil. Your inner fish.

Tangled Bank Studios, LLC, production company.

Windfall Films (Firm), production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster.

PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Title from title screens.

Originally broadcast as a 3-episode television mini-series on PBS.

Based on the book Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body by Neil Shubin.

Special features: Amazing places, amazing fossils: Tiktaalik; The evolution of your teeth; Amazing places, amazing fossils: Tritheledont; Our fishy brain; Amazing places, amazing fossils: Lucy; extended interview: Tim White, paleoanthropologist, on finding Ardi; education guide PDF.

Directors, Tom Cook and Alex Tate.

Presenter, Neil Shubin.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen; stereo.

System requirements for DVD-ROM features: PC or Mac with DVD-ROM drive; Adobe Acrobat reader.

For private home use only.

In English; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).

Contents:

Your inner fish. Our family tree ; Origin of the human hand ; Transitional fossils ; The search for Tiktaalik ; My wife's a fish ; Sonic hedgehog ; Finding Tiktaalik -- Your inner reptile. Discovering your inner reptile ; Our egg-laying ancestors ; Mammal-like reptiles ; How we got hair ; The power of skin ; The evolution of hearing ; The rise of mammals -- Your inner monkey. Meet your inner monkey ; Color vision ; The ape that stood up ; Walking on two legs ; Our bad backs ; Our fishy brain.

ISBN:

9781608830671

1608830675

9786315369148

6315369146

Publisher Number:

YOIF601

Other Number:

874664723

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

910089

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 611 Your inn