Episode 37 - Evolution of Birds

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Birds are such unique and fascinating animals; for many decades scientists have wondered at their evolutionary story – and so have many of our listeners! Well here it is: the Evolution of Birds, complete with some scientific history, key fossil finds, and a fly-by (yep) of the incredible diversity of critters that led to birds as we know them today In the news: history of the Great Barrier Reef, giant bony fish, early African tetrapods, and the oldest lizards. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:03:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:31:00Main discussion, Part 2: 00:56:30 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 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.
0:18.5	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:22.5	And hello listeners.
0:25.4	Welcome back to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:28.2	This is episode 37.
0:29.0	Yay.
0:32.1	Big fans of prime numbers here at the Common Descent podcast.
0:36.8	I've also always been a fan of double digit numbers that when added together, make 10.
0:38.3	I don't know why. It's just always entertained me as a kid. A weird guy, Ace. A weird guy. Today, our subject is the evolution
0:47.3	of birds. Yeah. This is one of the most fascinating evolutionary stories in evolutionary history and a fascinating story of scientific discovery.
0:58.8	Yes.
0:59.6	We will talk a bit about what we understand about where birds came from and how they came to be as they are today.
1:06.6	We will talk a little bit about the history of thought and discovery on this subject.
1:12.0	And we'll talk a bit about bird diversity past and present.
1:16.3	This is the number one most requested subject.
1:20.8	Yeah, it is.
1:21.5	In common descent history.
1:23.1	This was requested.
1:24.5	This particular subject was requested by three anonymous people on the survey
1:29.0	by Dylan on Facebook, who's also one of our patrons. Cheryl, who is another one of our patrons,
1:37.6	and a third patron suggested that we talk a bit about the history of this subject, which is why
1:43.4	there'll be a little bit of a
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