Episode 155 - Gymnosperms

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

It’s a great time of year to talk about conifers! Also their cousins: cycads, ginkgos, and others! Gymnosperms don’t get nearly as much love and attention as their flowering counterparts, the inescapable angiosperms, but they nonetheless have their own fascinating history going all the way back to some of the earliest forests on Earth. This episode, we’re joined once again by our favorite paleobotanist Dr. Aly Baumgartner to discuss what makes gymnosperms unique, what has made them so successful for hundreds of millions of years, and how these incredible plants have changed the world. In the news: fossil-finding robots, super-old DNA, ankylosaur clubs, and snake sex organs. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:45Main discussion, Part 1: 00:41:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:38:30Patron question: 02:36:30 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Follow this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible!www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent 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/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Happy New Year, Will.
0:20.6	Happy New Year, David. Happy New Year, David.
0:21.8	And happy new year to all of you out there.
0:24.2	Welcome to episode 155 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:29.9	This is a special episode for several reasons.
0:33.2	Number one, it is the last episode of 2022.
0:36.2	We are wrapping it up. Next up, we'll be in a whole new year. Also, it is the last episode of 2022. We are wrapping it up.
0:37.8	Next up, we'll be in a whole new year.
0:40.0	Also, it ends in a five, which these days means it's a plants episode with Allie.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:45.3	We will be joined after the news by our good friend Ali Baumgartner, Dr. Ali Baumgardner,
0:50.5	Doctor of Fossil Plants and such, to talk to us about fossil plants. And also, this
0:56.8	episode just so happens to come out on Christmas. Merry Christmas. That is the release of this
1:03.6	episode. Now, when we realized that, a few months ago, we put the call out to our listeners to say,
1:10.3	hey, what would be a good topic for us to do on a plants episode for an episode that comes out at Christmas?
1:16.6	And there were many great suggestions from our listeners.
1:20.1	And the one that got the most support was gymnosperms.
1:24.1	Yeah.
1:24.5	This is the group of plants that includes conifers, like people like to put decorations on around
1:31.1	this time of the year, as well as a bunch of other cool plants that are not flowering plants,
1:36.3	but nonetheless super cool and important.
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