Episode 66 - Elephants

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we take a deep dive into the evolutionary story of Earth’s largest land mammals. Extinction has left us with only three elephant species today, but for tens of millions of years their extended family, the proboscideans, came in many weird and wondrous forms, from mammoths to mastodons to shovel-tuskers and more. In the news: clam secrets, weird bird feet, surprise Greek humans, and early hominin breastfeeding. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:34:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:05:00Patron question: 01:56:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent 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.
0:21.2	And hello, listeners.
0:22.7	Welcome to episode 66.
0:24.7	66 of the Common Descent Podcast.
0:28.2	We are getting up there.
0:29.7	And with episode 66, to go along with this weird number, we're talking about elephants,
0:35.2	obviously.
0:35.8	Of course.
0:36.5	That's the animal.
0:37.4	I think of when I think of 66.
0:39.3	Elephants are so weird and fascinating.
0:40.8	So it kind of almost fits.
0:42.7	More accurately, proboscidians.
0:45.1	We're talking about more than just elephants.
0:46.7	And we'll go over what I mean by that in a bit.
0:49.4	But this episode was requested in many ways, which we'll start to explain this.
0:56.1	This is a very cool topic with a lot of categories, and we had almost every part of the topic we're going to cover
1:01.5	this episode requested, which was kind of interesting. Yeah, it was a very thorough request list.
1:06.8	Yes, it was. So we had requests for proboscideon's Probiscideon, elephants, mammoths, mastodons,
1:13.8	Gompathir's, ancient elephants, and just proboscidia.
1:18.0	So, yeah.
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