Episode 165 - Fruit

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

One of the hallmarks of angiosperms (flowering plants) is the formation of a container to hold their seeds. These containers are fruits, and they come in an astonishing variety of forms and functions, far beyond the typical line up of fruits, nuts, and berries we see at the grocery store. Join us and our favorite paleobotanist Dr. Aly Baumgartner as we explore what fruits are, what fruits do, and how fruits came to be so ubiquitous and important in modern ecosystems. In the news: big predatory amphibians, exceptional fossil preservation, origins of blinking, and cycad cones. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:45Main discussion, Part 1: 00:40:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:36:30Patron question: 02:14:15 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: @commondescentpodcastYouTube: 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	Hello, Will.
0:20.3	Hello, David. Hello, David.
0:21.4	Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode 165 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:28.4	Here on the podcast, we talk about all sorts of things, paleontology, evolution, earth history, life history, and so on.
0:34.8	And every now and then, we dedicate an episode to plants.
0:38.4	Yep.
0:38.9	These days, those are the episodes that end in a five, which means this episode, there's
0:43.9	going to be a lot of plant talk, and once we get to the main discussion, Allie's going to
0:47.8	be here with us, as usual.
0:50.1	This episode's topic is fruit.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:53.3	A very cool episode topic, a topic that I know Allie was
0:56.5	very excited to get to talk to us about. We'll be talking about what fruit is, which,
1:02.5	well, boy, that's a question that we're going to talk about that question for a long time.
1:07.5	What fruit is? What makes fruit a fruit? what are the different categories of fruit? They're
1:12.1	not what you think. And what fruit does. We'll talk about the function of fruits. Also, more
1:18.0	diverse and exciting than you might expect it to be. Yeah, it does more than just taste good.
1:22.6	It's absolutely good. There's so many things that fruit that I wouldn't want to eat at all.
1:26.6	And of course, we'll talk about the evolution of fruit.
1:29.1	We'll talk about the fossil record.
1:30.9	This is a really cool pseudo-companyan episode to episode 135, which was about seeds.
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