Cute-E - Jackalopes

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 53 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 - could evolve here on Earth, pulling inspiration from real-world species across our planet’s history. This year’s theme is Tiny Monsters. This episode, we look at a local legend. How might real-world evolution result in elusive and mysterious rabbits with antlers? Our creatures to create this time: Jackalopes. 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 More ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent 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 QE.
0:10.8	Hello, David.
0:11.7	Yeah, what's up, Will?
0:14.2	And hello, listeners.
0:16.6	Welcome to QD.
0:18.3	QE, the second ever cutie.
0:21.6	Yes, we've brought it back.
0:22.6	Last year we did our first ever cute E to follow up Spooky, where we talk about creepy creatures and monsters, cuties where we do the same thing in discussing how would we evolve these strange creatures but for cute things.
0:36.6	Yeah, well, because Spooky is a bit sort of limited. Yeah. It's about scary monsters. discussing how would we evolve these strange creatures but for cute things yeah well because
0:37.5	spooky is a bit sort of limited yeah it's about scary monstery stuff cutie is for cute stuff
0:43.9	well then there's a whole bunch of things that fall within the exact same stories as all those
0:48.3	other creatures that are just too cute to be called monsters yes i always say that and then i
0:53.6	think of like all the things on Sesame Street are technically
0:55.7	monsters.
0:56.3	Absolutely.
0:57.5	This is where we do that kind of monster.
1:00.5	This is where we do cute monsters.
1:04.0	We will be discussing how could this creature evolve under the rules of our real world
1:09.1	natural selection.
1:10.4	What would it take to get something that
1:11.9	fits the description of, in this case, a jackalope?
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