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The Common Descent Podcast

Episode 7 - Primates

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are joined by special guest Ethan Fulwood! He shares with us the fascinating diversity and evolutionary history of a familiar group of mammals called Primates. In the news: an ancient dinosaur-cousin, bats with diverse diets, and ancient predator injuries. Ethan’s on Twitter! @fulwoodomys Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:02:00Main discussion: 00:25:00 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=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.

0:19.0

Hello, Will.

0:21.5

Hey, David. Hello, Ethan. Hey, David.

0:23.4

Hello, Ethan.

0:24.4

Hello.

0:26.3

And hello, listeners out there. This is episode seven of the Common Descent podcast.

0:30.5

This is an extremely special and exciting episode because this is, as you may have have guessed our first ever guest episode

0:40.1

woo we are very excited to be joined by a friend of ours from our grad school days

0:50.1

Ethan fullwood hello Hello, Ethan. Hello, gentle listeners. Ethan is a doctoral student at Duke

1:00.7

University, and if you're a longtime listener, you may recall in our early episodes, we made the case

1:07.3

for the best animals of all time.

1:11.2

Yes.

1:13.2

No, no, we solved the case.

1:15.4

Or so we thought.

1:22.4

Because Ethan was one of a couple people who took to Twitter to argue with us.

1:25.4

Ethan is a specialist in primates.

1:30.9

So rather than silence him completely, we figured we would give him the opportunity to come onto the podcast and tell us about his group of animals.

1:34.0

So thanks very much for joining us.

1:36.8

And thank you for having me.

1:38.6

This is exciting.

1:40.9

Yeah, we'll see how it goes and we'll see what, you know, kinks come up that we have to work out for future guest episodes and such.

1:49.0

But I think it should be, I think it should be pretty good.

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