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Published: 2012-03-24 20:40:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 12883; Favourites: 105; Downloads: 102
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FOR FULL SIZE, PLEASE CLICK "Download Image".Art by Angrboda ([link] )
Scenario by Seadog Driftwood (myself)
A paleogenetics grad student is working on sequencing DNA extracted from the root of a Plesiadapis tooth. She's getting results, but they're rather piecemeal; the genetic picture is like a puzzle, but with multiple copies of pieces, many of them with worn-away edges. It's a very wearying, repetitive, time-absorbing job, and it wears heavily on her mind.
One night, she dreams of herself as a Plesiadapis, scurrying about on a tree. Meanwhile, her actual body is reshaping itself into a human-sized Plesiadapis.
It's safe to say that the DNA sequencing process will go a lot more smoothly now - if her co-workers can catch her!
For more information on the genus Plesiadapis, please consult Wikipedia: [link]
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Errg. I really want to add this to my primate anthro collection, but last I checked, Plesiadapiformes were considered too basal to be true primates. Curse you, scientific accuracy!
Anyway, this is cool; especially since it's based on a Palaeocene (an epoch which is sadly greatly overlooked) animal.
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That's cute and nicely drawn. You've improved a lot in the last couple of years!
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Heh, thanks, but I couldn't draw like this if I tried!
No, I just came up with the idea: I commissioned Angrboda to draw it.
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Hehe, ah.. My mistake.. xD
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It's a very early relative of the primates. Check the Wikipedia link at the bottom of the description for more info.
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OH I thought it was a relative of the squirrel.
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Rodents and lagomorphs are actually very close relatives to primates.
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Yup. Between DNA testing and early primate fossils that have rodent-like incisors, it's a pretty solid relationship.
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OK, that interesting.
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