...But We Digress - Pokemon Paleontology

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Welcome to the world of Pokémon Paleontology! In this digression – by popular demand – we explore how the fictional world of Pokémon draws inspiration from real world science, particularly in regard to fossils and evolution. We’ll name our favorite fossil Pokémon, discuss Pokémon evolution, and point out where the Poké-science gets wonky. What’s your favorite bit of Pokémon science? We're doing another End of the Year Q&A! Submit your question here: https://forms.gle/E398RmMhGvaYHpz6A The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:05.7	But we digress.
0:08.1	Hello, Will.
0:09.4	Hello, David.
0:10.5	Hello, listeners.
0:12.9	Digression.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:14.5	Been a little while since we've done a digression.
0:16.3	It has.
0:16.9	Digressions are when we have something to talk about, but it doesn't fit neatly into any of our series.
0:21.3	Yeah.
0:21.9	This time we're talking about Pokemon paleontology.
0:26.3	I'm so excited.
0:27.2	It's going to be so good.
0:28.4	Now, before we get into Pokemon, a couple of things that we need to get out of the way.
0:33.5	First and foremost, if you don't know what Pokemon is or why we would talk about it on our
0:40.8	paleontology podcast, here's a brief introduction.
0:45.5	Pokemon is a fictional franchise, started out as video games, has since become TV shows and
0:53.7	movies and card games and stuff.
0:55.7	The basic crux is there is a fictional world, the world of Pokemon, that is much like our own
1:02.0	real world, but it is inhabited by a variety of magical creatures. Yeah. Some of them are cute and some
1:08.9	of them are awesome and some of them are rare or powerful or this and that.
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