Episode 200 - Fungi

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Here it is! The most requested episode topic in the history of the podcast! Fungi are everywhere. This episode, we explore how fungi work, what makes them different from other organisms, and how they achieve a wide variety of lifestyles all over the world. We’ll also look back at their evolutionary history and fossil record to explore some of the most significant fungal moments of Earth’s past. Fungi will return… In the news: dinosaur teeth, pterosaur flight, bit bones, and ancient thylacines. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:08:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:39:15Main discussion, Part 2: 01:38:30Patron question: 02:29:35 Check out our website for this episode’s blog post 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 Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://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. Hello, David.
0:21.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Common Descent, a podcast about paleontology evolution
0:27.4	in the history of life on Earth.
0:29.5	This is episode 200.
0:32.6	200!
0:33.7	Our 200th episode, amazing.
0:37.3	It's so exciting.
0:39.3	Every episode of this podcast, we discuss a main topic requested by our audience, and for this very special episode, we are doing the most requested topic in the history of the podcast.
0:52.2	This episode is the fungus episode.
0:55.4	Fungi!
0:56.2	Fungi! We will be discussing what fungi are, what makes them distinctive from other life on
1:01.9	earth, how they work, what we know about their evolution and their fossil record.
1:06.1	We're going to have a whole lot to talk about with fungi.
1:09.5	Now, some of our listeners might already be thinking to
1:11.9	themselves, how are you guys going to cover an entire kingdom of life and do justice to all
1:19.2	of those requests for the topic in just one special episode? And the answer is, we're not.
1:26.4	This episode 200 is Fungi, part one.
1:30.7	After this, come back and join us for episode 201 and 202.
1:36.8	It's going to be fungus for a month and a half.
1:39.3	It's going to be among us for a while.
1:42.0	Now, of course, this topic was requested, and we like to shout out our requesters.
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