End of the Year Q&A 2024

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 323 minutes

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Happy New Year! Welcome back to our annual, traditional question-answering marathon! As always, a big thank you to everyone who submitted questions for this Q&A, everyone who has listened and shared and engaged with us throughout the year, and especially to our Patrons, who make this podcast possible. See you in 2025! Check out our website for our blog posts and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent 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.
0:19.2	Happy New Year, Will.
0:20.4	Happy New Year, David. Happy New Year, David.
0:21.7	Happy New Year, everybody, and welcome to our annual traditional Common Descent podcast, end of the year
0:28.1	Q&A, where we will spend a long time answering a deluge of questions submitted to us
0:34.4	by our audience.
0:36.0	It is the end of 2024.
0:40.9	This is always a super fun way to wrap up a year.
0:46.2	Thank you to everybody who has been listening to us throughout 2024. This has been a super fun year for the podcast. Welcome to all of our listeners who joined us this year. And as always, an extra big
0:52.4	thanks to our patrons whose support allows us to do all the cool
0:56.0	stuff we've done this year years before and cool plans that we have for the future in 2025.
1:03.0	Yeah, this has been a very transformative year and it looks to continue to be so going to the future.
1:10.0	So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for that support.
1:13.6	Let's answer questions.
1:16.3	Will give us our first question.
1:18.4	Okay.
1:19.2	Our first question is from Adrian.
1:22.1	What fossil specimen, discovery, or research study do you feel is the magnum opus of each era of time in the phanozoic,
1:31.1	one for the paleozoic, one for the mesozoic, and one for the cynzoic.
1:35.0	Fascinating question.
1:36.9	I, that's a really good, the first thing that comes to mind is just really famous fossil
1:42.9	specimens.
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