Episode 80 - Mary Anning

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Happy Darwin Day! This time around, we’re talking about Mary Anning! She was one of the earliest modern paleontologists, she helped lay the groundwork for our modern methods of uncovering and understanding fossils, and she was famously underappreciated in her time. We’re joined in our discussion by our friend Brittney Stoneburg from the Western Science Center! Follow Brittney on Twitter and Instagram: @brittandboneAnd follow our friends at the Western Science Center! In the news: elephant evolution, pterosaur feeding, Jurassic “firewalkers”, and ancient fungi. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:40:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:13:30 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/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @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. Musical 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, Will. Hello, David. Hello, listeners. Welcome to episode 80 of the Common Descent
0:24.8	Podcast, and happy Darwin Day. Happy Darwin Day! Darwin Day is a day that science and science-y nerds
0:32.4	all around the world celebrate science, scientists, and the work, past, present, and future that allows us to understand the natural world.
0:41.5	And it commemorates the birthday of one Charles Darwin.
0:44.9	We've talked about him.
0:46.2	We have. His birthdays on February 12th.
0:48.8	Two years ago, we did Darwin Day with our friend Dr. Sarah Bray in an episode about Darwin himself, episode 28.
0:56.7	Last year, episode 54, again with Dr. Sara Bray, was about Alfred Russell Wallace, the other evolution guy.
1:04.4	Yeah.
1:05.0	And this year, we are continuing our tradition of talking about historical figures with Mary Anning, which is cool. I'm excited.
1:13.6	Yeah, well, and it's another one that it's about time for a Mary Anning episode. I feel like
1:19.3	that's going to be one of those every time we get to a new Darwin day. It will be about time we've
1:24.2	talked about. Probably. Whoever we're talking about. Because there's a lot of cool people.
1:28.5	So, Marianning is famous for many things, predominantly, being one of the first modern
1:35.6	paleontologists in the very early 1800s before the word dinosaur existed, before Darwin came
1:43.8	around, before Darwin was born. Well, some of it was before dying. She was existed before Darwin came around, before Darwin was born.
1:46.0	Well, some of it was before, she was alive before Darwin was born.
1:48.8	But before Darwin was famous.
1:50.3	Yeah.
1:50.9	She was one of the people that sort of set the stage for our modern methods, our modern
1:56.2	understanding of ancient life.
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