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And so, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast episode 69, animal diversity, and I'm your host, James Fodor.

In this episode, I'm going to discuss the diversity and biological tax are found in the kingdom of

animalia or animals. The goal here is to give a sense of the diversity of the animal kingdom and the

relationships between different

types of animals. Obviously, I'm not expecting people to remember even a small fraction of

all of the different... Obviously, I'm not expecting people to remember even a small fraction

of all the different types of animals that I'm going to specify, but I'm just hoping that in this episode you'll get a sense of the rich diversity of the animal kingdom.

And broadly speaking, you'll pick up some ideas of what different types of animals there are

and how they relate to each other, which is often something that many people, myself included,

don't necessarily know very much about.

So in this episode, I'm going to talk about basically all of the types of animals that are not

mammals.

So this includes all of the various phyla outside of chordates, arthropods, mollus, echinodems, etc.

And also most of the different classes within the chordate order,

including the bony fish and jawless fish and birds and reptiles and amphibians and so on.

And for the next episode, I'll save talking about the mammalian class, which obviously is

where humans and most of the animals that we sort of are familiar with, fit in.

So I'll leave them to their own episode.

Also, I must apologize if you hear additional extraneous background noise in this episode,

because I'm actually recording this and these two episodes outside.

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