Episode 8: Face the Face
Of all the vertebrate animals, only mammals have muscles of facial expression ... why?
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The Evolution of Vertebrate Anatomy Through Deep Time
Episode 7: Hands Down, or, Why Velociraptor Could Not Open Doors
The ability to open doors depends on two things: 1) being able to grip the door handle and 2) being able to rotate the hand so that the door handle tu...
Episode 6: How the Dentist Came To Be So Important to Mammals
Why don't mammals continuously replace their teeth? The answer may surprise you.
Episode 5: Elephants, Cats, and Ticking Clocks
Having upright limbs has advantages for mammals. And you probably want to know about how an elephant almost made Dr. Bonnan thinner.
Episode 4: A Brief History of Meat
Many of us enjoy eating meat, but few of us pause to think about how important its pre-meal form, skeletal muscle, is for vertebrate life.
Episode 3: How Do You Make a Snake?
It seems only fitting that a podcast series called Along the Backbone should discuss the formation of the backbone in one of lengthiest vertebrates: s...