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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

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The Impact of the Paleocene

The impact wiped out 75% of life on Earth. It took out most terrestrial life, though. I mean, we ended up in terms of vertebrates in North America with only a couple of percent of creatures surviving it. And what enabled things to survive was that they tended to be hidden back behind the mountain ranges and were isolated from each other. That's probably what would happen with people if we had an impact like this one.

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