Along The Backbone

Dr. Matthew Bonnan, Ph.D.
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The Evolution of Vertebrate Anatomy Through Deep Time

Episodes

  1. 02/17/2012

    Episode 8: Face the Face

    Of all the vertebrate animals, only mammals have muscles of facial expression ... why?

  2. 11/05/2011

    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 turns. Could a hungry Velociraptor turn a door handle to get at you, the delectable human in hiding?

  3. 11/01/2011

    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.

  4. 10/24/2011

    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.

  5. 10/14/2011

    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.

  6. 10/11/2011

    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: snakes.

  • 6 Episodes

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The Evolution of Vertebrate Anatomy Through Deep Time

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  • Creator
    Dr. Matthew Bonnan, Ph.D.
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2012
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
  • Show Website
    Along The Backbone