Episode 84 - Paleopathology

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Life ain’t always easy. Injury and disease are a persistent threat for life of all sorts, and that’s been true for as long as there has been life. Fortunately for us, these threats can leave evidence in fossils, teaching us about the lives, struggles, and sometimes deaths of ancient organisms. The study of this evidence is called paleopathology, and in this episode, our friend Laura will explain the ins and outs of the field and share with us some of her favorite examples. In the news: ancient hands, old snakes, the earliest animals, and a new dinosaur. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:41:00 Main discussion, Part 2: 01:17:00Patron question: 02:07:00 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/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, and welcome to episode 84 of the Common Descent Podcast.
0:26.2	84.
0:27.2	Today, we are talking about a topic called paleopathology.
0:32.6	A topic I've been looking forward to.
0:34.9	Pathology is the study of, of typically evidence of injury or disease.
0:41.7	Yeah. So in modern day, right, forensic pathology and medical pathology, you're talking about
0:47.0	injury or disease in the body somewhere, any part of the body and the organs and the bones,
0:53.1	etc.
1:01.3	Paleopathology, as the name implies, is finding evidence of injury or disease or something gone wrong in fossils.
1:03.7	Yes.
1:04.2	This episode, we will discuss what paleopathology entails, how we study it, how you
1:10.7	recognize evidence of these injuries or diseases, which is called pathologies.
1:15.9	So pathology is the study of it and is also what the things themselves are called.
1:21.1	Confusingly.
1:22.0	And we'll talk about a bunch of cool examples of what this looks like, what we can learn from it, things like that.
1:28.5	And even more exciting for this episode, we have a guest.
1:32.3	Yeah, we won't be alone.
1:33.3	Because it turns out that Will and I have a very good friend who is a paleo pathology expert.
1:39.3	Thank goodness, because we are not.
1:41.3	We are not.
1:42.3	Our friend Laura Emmert will be joining us and she'll get to
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