Episode 147 - Genetics

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 127 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

For many years, scientists pondered the question: how and why do offspring inherit traits from their parents? And key to the answer to that question is another question: what determines an organism’s traits in the first place? The pursuit of these answers ultimately led to the modern field of genetics, which itself is crucial to the study of evolution. This episode, we address just a few key points on this vast topic, with a focus on how our understanding of genetics allows us to interpret the history of evolution on our planet. In the news: early fruit-eating, giant Australian birds, beaver evolution, and human speech. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:37:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:08:30Patron question: 02:00:00 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 Join the Common Descent Discord server! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev 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. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, David. Hello, Will.
0:21.4	And hello everyone out there.
0:23.3	Welcome to the Common Descent podcast.
0:26.1	This is episode 147 where we will be discussing genetics.
0:31.3	Now that's a topic that's really tied into the overall subjects of our podcast.
0:36.6	Oh, yeah.
0:37.2	No, genetics is, it's a massive field of science.
0:40.3	This covers a bunch of areas of research focusing on genes, the features of our DNA that make us and all living things the way they are.
0:51.2	So in this episode, we'll be discussing every facet of genetics there is from top
0:56.3	to bottom. I suggest you all have a glass of water, some snacks handy. Take off of work for the next
1:01.6	couple of weeks. Yeah, you know, get someplace comfortable if you need, you know, to get into
1:06.4	more comfortable outfit right now. This is the time. What will we actually be talking about?
1:11.7	We are going to look at the concept of genetics, you know, what it is, it's history,
1:16.5	how has our understanding of how we pass on information, generation to generation,
1:22.9	and how is it expressed within an organism, and how does that change? How does our genome, the genes in our
1:30.7	body, change over time? How do the genetics evolve? We talk about evolution all the time,
1:35.5	but how does it actually get facilitated at the genetic level? And then how do we use that
1:41.0	to understand life? Yes. Not too long ago, episode 137, we did a whole episode devoted to just fossils and fossilization
1:48.7	as one of the pillars of the science of paleontology and evolutionary science.
1:54.2	Genetics is another one of those pillars.
1:56.5	Yes.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Common Descent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Common Descent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.