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The Common Descent Podcast

End of the Year Q&A 2021

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 245 minutes

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Happy New Year! Thanks as always to everyone who submitted questions for the Q&A. Thanks to everyone for listening, sharing, and supporting the podcast this year and for our whole run of nearly five years. We make the podcast, but you, our audience, make the podcast possible. More to come. See you in 2022. Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast  Or make a one-time donation via PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/4c68u4hp Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduwPodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at)gmail.comOr 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.

0:19.6

Happy New Year, Will. Happy New Year, Will.

0:21.2

Happy New Year, David.

0:22.5

And happy New Year to everybody listening all over the Internet.

0:27.4

Welcome to our traditional annual Common Descent podcast end of the year Q&A.

0:34.3

We made it.

0:35.2

We made it.

0:35.7

A whole other year.

0:36.9

As with previous years, we are going to spend the next few hours answering questions

0:41.8

submitted by our listeners.

0:44.0

From mid-November to mid-December, a form was available for anyone, patron otherwise,

0:48.8

whoever, to submit questions for us to answer here in a rapid fire back-to-back Q&A extravaganza, which we are about

0:59.1

to start.

1:00.3

As with previous times, we have more questions than we're going to be able to answer before

1:04.8

it gets too late and we have to stop.

1:07.1

But we are going to get through as many of them as we can.

1:09.8

We have, like previously, randomized the order of the list.

1:14.0

Yes.

1:14.6

So we don't know the order of the questions are going to be in, and that helps mix it up and make

1:18.1

it a lot of fun.

1:19.0

This will be the last thing that we release in the year 2021 before we move on to the new year.

1:25.9

And without further ado, Will, are you ready?

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