Episode 8 - Conservation Paleontology

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This episode topic comes from a fan request! We’re discussing how lessons from our planet’s prehistoric record can guide our efforts to preserve modern ecosystems: this is the field of conservation paleontology. In the news: sword-tailed sea scorpions, finding ancient DNA without fossils, climate change during the end-Pleistocene extinction, and (maybe) the oldest humans in North America! Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:04:30Main discussion: 00:31:00 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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.3	Hello, Will.
0:19.3	Hey there, David.
0:20.3	Hello, listeners, and welcome to episode eight of the Common Descent Podcast.
0:25.8	Thanks for joining us again.
0:27.6	Absolutely.
0:28.7	So, hey, remember how last episode was cool and special because it was the first time we had a special guest to help us with the topic?
0:36.1	It was pretty great.
0:37.1	Well, this episode is cool and special because this is the first episode... we had a special guest to help us with the topic. It was pretty great.
0:43.2	Well, this episode is cool and special because this is the first episode whose topic comes from a fan request.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:44.9	Slowly but surely, we are going to convert it so that really you all get to run the podcast
0:50.5	and they'll listen to it.
0:51.7	You're doing all the work.
0:52.8	And that's our long-term plan.
0:55.5	Absolutely.
0:56.5	So someday we will get all the credit and the fans will just do all the decision-making.
1:00.9	Yes, I like it.
1:01.9	So yeah, this episode comes from a request from Josh on Facebook.
1:06.1	The topic of today's episode is Conservation Paleontology, which is a really interesting, very young field within the science where we're basically merging those two things, conservation and paleontology.
1:21.0	Yeah, and this was sparked from one of the news articles you read in one of our earlier episodes that he responded to.
1:29.2	Indeed, it was. So this, before we get started and all that, I do want to take a moment
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