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Millions of years ago, the embryo of a distant ancestor of ours would have shared with us many of these features. As well as giving rise to us, it gave rise to all sorts of other creatures. And in tho

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It is incredible, and it is incredibly hard to believe too, because although we've changed so much, we don't actually see any of those changes happening. Generation after generation, we just look the

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But what's even more amazing to me is that although we've changed so little in so many thousands of years, each of us changes so much in just one lifetime. We tend to think of growing up as just getti

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But if I were to tell you just the science of these changes I would be missing the most important thing of all. Let me show you what I mean. This is the amount of tears that an average person cries du

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(Come on, let's talk about sex, baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about...) When it comes to growing up, 12-year-old Beatrice will ride the roller coaster of puberty . (let's talk about se

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And I like this 'coz everybody see that a human being can manage an illness like my illness. And everybody can see in this film there is a way to make known the best from your end of your life. So thi

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Everything that's alive and quite a few things that aren't, gives off heat. That's what you are looking at now. Every part of your body is burning up energy and creating heat as it goes about the busi

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They are heart cells, and several million of them working at once is a heartbeat. In this case, it's your head that rules your heart as it's your brain that decides what rate your heart should be beat

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...is actually the result of immeasurable activity inside our bodies. We are performing literally thousands of different tasks every second of every day. Simply being is part of an intricately complic

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It's an amazing list. In fact, no life is an ordinary story. We'll each in our time do an incredible amount. And the driving force behind everything we do is the most complicated organ in our bodies a

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There is one thing that everyone on earth has in common. We all live, eat and breathe within the human body. For two years I’ve been exploring this unique dwelling place. I want to show you what I'v

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I can see the muscles that make up my face, my skull, and my own brain. So, now I can take you on that journey into my ear in a way that’s never been possible before. This time we can fly straight t

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She'll crawl 150 kilometers before she's two. From then on, she'll learn a new word every two hours for the next 10 years. By the time she's ten, her heart would have beaten 368 million times. She'll

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They haven't changed because their environment has stayed the same. The water they live in bubbles up from deep in the earth, and so it's always the same temperature. But just meters away the environm