Episode 35 - De-extinction

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another extinction episode! Is extinction truly forever? Could something like Jurassic Park actually be possible? If so, should we do it? As we speak, there are scientists around the world working on the early stages of answering these questions, and in the process developing the very real science of De-extinction. In the news: sea-going crocs, giant sea snakes, early baleen whales, and super-ancient viruses. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:07:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:39:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:08:00 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 Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Muscial 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. Hello, David.
0:21.9	And hello, dear listeners, and also human listeners.
0:26.3	And welcome to the Common Descent podcast, episode 35.
0:31.4	Woohoo.
0:32.4	Because this is an episode that ends in the number five, as we decided 10 episodes ago, every episode that ends in the number five. As we decided, ten episodes ago, every episode that ends in the number five is an
0:39.8	extinction-related episode.
0:42.1	I feel like that deserves a cheer, but that also is a depressing.
0:45.4	Hooray!
0:46.5	Extinction.
0:47.4	Ah, my death.
0:49.3	The previous three installments in this tradition were all about mass extinctions, including two of the
0:57.1	big five mass extinctions, times where things got so bad that they wiped out at least half
1:04.6	of all life in the universe.
1:06.6	I mean on the planet.
1:09.5	But today, we are talking about the opposite indeed of extinction.
1:16.4	Today, our subject is de-extinction.
1:19.8	Ah.
1:20.6	The reversal of extinction.
1:22.9	We are going to talk in this episode about what de-extinction is. It is not just a sci-fi thing. It's a real
1:29.8	thing people are looking into. Yes. How people are doing it, how it might look in the future,
1:36.2	why people want to do it, and toward the end, why it's controversial and why there are people who really, really don't like the
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