The Rise and Reign of Primates | Purgatorious and Plesiadapiforms

The journey from any of our given ancestors to our own anatomically modern species is a fantastic and riveting one, and not simply due to it’s personal connection with each and every one of us. Join me as we travel from the Late Cretaceous to our modern world, keeping pace with each member of our own family tree, be they cousins or direct ancestors. It’s an unbelievable trip, and one that echoes it’s tale in each of your cells.

Today we begin in the shrouded treetops of the Late Cretaceous with purgatorius and the plesiadapiforms, shrew-like animals that carved out a living for themselves while the dinosaurs roamed the earth, only to see a myriad of possibility sprawl before them with the giant sauropsid's demise.

General Sources:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowl...
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1487
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

Outro: Point Pleasant by Brock Berrigan
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