Episode 201 - Fungi and Plants

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

Our fungal celebration continues! The relationship between fungi and plants is one of the most famous and consequential connections in biological history. This episode, Aly is here to help us explore how fungi and plants work together and work against each other, what we know about the deep history of their relationship, and how fungi and plants together have shaped the world as we know it. Fungi will return… In the news: toothy birds, polar forests, coelacanth evolution, and a Pennsylvanian lagerstatte. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:07:35Main discussion, Part 1: 00:36:40Main discussion, Part 2: 01:40:15Patron question: 02:40:30 Follow Aly online at @PaleoLorax And go check out Flora Funga Podcast at www.florafungapodcast.com and on social media at @florafungapodcast 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.
0:19.2	Hello, Will.
0:20.2	Hello, David. Hello, David.
0:21.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Common Descent, where we geek out about paleontology and earth
0:25.5	history and stuff.
0:26.9	This is episode 201, the second part of our grand celebratory trilogy in honor of episode 200.
0:35.1	We are talking about the most requested topic in the history of the podcast,
0:39.7	Fungi.
0:40.6	Still.
0:41.3	Last episode was Fungi, this episode, because it takes more than one episode to go over an entire kingdom
0:46.2	and the thing that everyone of our listeners wanted us to talk about.
0:49.8	This episode is Fungi and Plants.
0:53.5	A classic duo. Yeah, the name of more iconic plants. A classic duo.
0:55.0	Yeah, the name a more iconic duo.
0:58.2	Fungi and plants is getting its own episode just for itself.
1:03.3	Massive topic.
1:04.6	We're going to talk about their interactions.
1:06.9	We're going to talk about symbiotic relationships, parasitic relationships, and we'll go into the fossil record and explore how important the relationships between fungi and plants have been to the evolution of both groups.
1:20.9	This is a topic I've been waiting for because way back when we did symbiosis, I remember feeling bad for how little I said about this.
1:27.1	Well, now we guys as a whole episode.
1:30.1	Also, to add to the celebratory excitement, despite the number in the title, this is a plants
1:38.5	episode.
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