Cute-E - Friendly Dragons

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Welcome … to Cute-E! Every October during Spook-E, we have fun speculatively evolving monsters from myths and stories, but we leave out the cuddlier side of fiction. In Cute-E, we’re choosing kinder creatures and discussing how they – or something like them - might evolve under the rules of evolution and natural selection, pulling inspiration from organisms of the real world. This year’s theme: Dragons. This episode, we snuggle up with the sweeter side of dragons. How might natural processes produce intelligent, social, and even amicable draconic beasts? Our creatures to create this time: Friendly Dragons. Join the Common Descent Discord server for more Spook-E discussion! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent More ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent You can email us at [email protected] send us physical mail at:The Common Descent Podcast1735 W State of Franklin Rd. Ste 5 #165Johnson City, TN 37604 The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome.More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:07.8	And welcome to Cute E.
0:10.8	Hello, David.
0:11.6	You just gestured to all of me, Will.
0:14.8	And hello listeners.
0:17.2	Welcome to the very first episode of Cute E.
0:21.2	It's Cutie!
0:22.4	Yeah!
0:23.2	This is an idea we have talked about, mostly on our patron stuff, about doing for a while.
0:28.8	Yes, we've thrown this idea around and mainly driven by the fact that there's a bunch of mythical story creatures akin to monsters in many ways, but not very monstrous.
0:42.8	The schick of spooky every year is that we pick monsters.
0:47.2	It's in October.
0:48.2	It's a Halloween thing to then speculatively evolve.
0:51.9	And that means that we end up having to leave out a bunch of stuff
0:55.0	that doesn't fit at all.
0:58.1	So, hence, cute E, the version where we get to do the other stuff.
1:03.0	Yeah, where we get to have fun with some cute and adorable and just sweet creatures.
1:08.5	Just like the normal series, this is looking at the speculative evolution.
1:13.8	The cute tilted to live, it doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well as spookulative.
1:17.3	It's not. It doesn't have a full maker.
1:19.7	We're going to look at the evolutionary questions of some cute creatures.
1:24.7	Yes, and sticking with our theme of the year, we're still on dragons. Here we are
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