Episode 27 - Domestication

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we explore the evolutionary innovation that brought us a diversity of animal companions, from corgis to cattle to cauliflower, and jump-started our species’ rise to world dominance: Domestication. In the news: a colorful new dinosaur, super-ancient butterflies, the evolution of tail weaponry, and migrating whale barnacles. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:02:00Main discussion: 00:23:30 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.8	Hello, Will.
0:20.8	Hello, Will.
0:22.0	Hello, David.
0:25.2	Hello, listeners out there in listener land.
0:26.1	Howdy.
0:31.5	And welcome to episode 27 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:32.6	Woohoo.
0:41.7	Today, we are talking about a topic that was requested by Michael on our blog. How about that?
0:42.9	Woohoo.
0:43.9	Thank you, Michael, for your suggestion.
0:46.4	He asked if we could talk about domestication.
0:49.4	Yes.
0:51.0	The very fascinating sort of subset of evolution where humans take over.
0:59.2	Artificial selection.
1:02.0	Yes, taking over and turning wild creatures into pets or livestock or crops or whatever it is, we want to turn them into.
1:11.8	Into other.
1:14.2	Yes, into miscellaneous.
1:21.1	So we're going to talk about sort of what that is, how that process happens, the impacts,
1:23.5	some of the history of domestication.
1:40.9	But before we get to that, there was a quick announcement to make because, as regular listeners will know, if you are a patron and your patronage is of a certain level, we say your name on the podcast.
1:42.1	Yeah, we do.
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