Episode 10 - The Tree of Life

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we’re taking the time to talk about a subject that comes up just about every episode: the classification and relationships of living organisms. Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and the Tree of Life! In the news: giant ground sloth diets, how whales got huge, the crunching jaws of T. rex, and the evolution of soldier bees! Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion: 00:28:00Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast 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.
0:18.5	Hello, Will.
0:19.4	Hello, David.
0:26.3	Hello listeners out there on the internet and in your cars and on your phones and... In radio land.
0:27.9	In radio land, this is the Common Descent podcast.
0:31.1	Today is episode 10.
0:35.9	We have achieved double digits.
0:38.3	It's pretty exciting.
0:39.6	I think last episode we promised that there would be cake, and as far as the listeners know, we have cake.
0:45.3	It was delicious.
0:48.1	I have it right here with me.
0:51.3	It's just so moist.
0:52.8	That was so good.
0:54.7	Before we get started on today's episode, a quick announcement, a very exciting announcement that we are making, we have something new.
1:03.2	The Common Descent podcast officially has a Patreon page, which is super exciting.
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