Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Our new sticker is available here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons And check out Tacos of Texas!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh_qdzak59m68-i4M441Rkr5j8c_mQ-en Purgatorius, a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform, might’ve been one of your earliest ancestors. But how did we get from a mouse-sized creature that looked more like a squirrel than a monkey -- to you, a member of Homo sapiens? Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Purgatorius reconstruction. Check out more of Ceri s paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com and http://nixillustration.com And thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katie Fichtner, Aldo Espinosa Zúñiga, Anthony Callaghan, الخليفي سلطان, Gabriel Cortez, Marcus Lejon, Anel Salas, Robert Arévalo, Robert Hill, Kelby Reid, Todd Dittman, Betsy Radley, Svetlana Pylaeva, Colin Sylvester, Philip Slingerland, John Vanek, Jose Garcia, Noah offitzer, Eric Vonk, Tony Wamsley, Henrik Peteri, Jonathan Wright, Jon Monteiro, James Bording, Brad Nicholls, Miles Chaston, Michael McClellan, Jeff Graham, Maria Humphrey, Nathan Paskett, Connor Jensen, Sapjes, Daisuke Goto, Hubert Rady, Yuntao Zhou, Gregory Kintz, Tyson Cleary, Chandler Bass, Maly Lor, Joao Ascensao. Tsee Lee, Sarah Fritts, Ruben Winter, Ron Harvey Jr, Joshua Mitchell, Johnny Li, Jacob Gerke, Alex Yan If you d like to support the channel, head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad1.html https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-molecular-clock-and-estimating-species-divergence-41971 https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/overview-of-hominin-evolution-89010983 https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/hominoid-origins-135874580 https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/phylogenetics_08 https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/darwin-s-evolutionary-trees http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Mammalogy/systematics/A5primates.htm https://askananthropologist.asu.edu/stories/our-primate-heritage https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/characteristics-of-crown-primates-105284416 http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/black_spider_monkey https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/primate-origins-and-the-plesiadapiforms-106236783 http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Hominidae/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/hominin-taxonomy-and-phylogeny-what-s-in-142102877 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/08/generation-gaps-suggest-ancient-human-ape-split https://www.eva.mpg.de/3chimps/files/apes.htm https://www.nature.com/news/dna-mutation-clock-proves-tough-to-set-1.17079#/b2 http://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1487 Collard, M., & Wood, B. (2013). Defining the genus Homo. Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I: Principles, Methods and Approaches Vol II: Primate Evolution and Human Origins Vol III: Phylogeny of Hominids, 1-31. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12644563 http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0020813.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29109469 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29342307 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.1330400309 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4964406 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10842 https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-abstract/20/10/1620/1164065 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/931 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429568 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-015637 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/evan.20177 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6228/1352 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09094