Episode 56 – The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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One of the main themes of this podcast is the evolutionary history of life. This concept is familiar to all of us today, but our current understanding of evolution is the culmination of a very long history of scientific inquiry. In this episode, we’ll introduce you to some of the biggest names in this story, from Aristotle to Darwin, as we explore the evolution of evolutionary theory. In the news: tiny frogs, an ancient nesting ground, algae evolution, and a tusked sea cow. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:30:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:11:30 The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent 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, David. Hello, Will.
0:22.5	And hello, listeners.
0:24.3	Welcome to episode 56 of the Commonestcent podcast.
0:28.2	Today, we are going to get into the history of evolutionary theory.
0:34.9	Yes, what a fitting subject so soon after our Wallace episode. Indeed.
0:39.3	We are going to, in this episode, kind of go step by step through how historically did we
0:48.3	arrive at the theory of evolution we have today. How, what did we used to think?
0:56.0	How did pieces of it come into our mindset
1:00.9	and our accepted view of the world?
1:05.1	And how did we break down previous ideas that, you know, contradicted it?
1:11.9	You mean Darwin didn't just crawl out of a primordial ooze and say evolution?
1:17.8	No, he did not.
1:18.8	Evolution complete.
1:21.7	It was a very long, very interesting and crazy and weird at times.
1:28.4	Yeah.
1:28.7	Path.
1:29.4	So lots of crazy ideas to get by.
1:31.9	This episode was inspired off of a suggestion by one of our listeners.
1:36.9	Brian on Twitter suggested evolution slash natural selection.
1:41.6	As our first episode actually focused on the topic, we thought it was fitting to
1:47.4	actually describe what is the concept of evolution? How did we get there? Why do we think the things we do?
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