Episode 90 - "Living Fossils"

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

"Living fossils" aren't really a thing, not the way they're typically talked about anyway, and the term can be a source of debate among scientists and science communicators. In this episode, we talk about how this term is used and why some scientists defend it while others (including us!) aren't fans. In the news: horned gophers, dinosaur eggs, giant eggs, and croc tracks. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:37:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:16:00Patron question: 01:54:00 In light of current events, we invite you to explore these links to educate yourself, as we have been doing, about the subject of racial injustice:Smithsonian NMAAHC - Talking About Race https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-raceTimeScavengers - Black Lives Matter https://timescavengers.blog/2020/06/01/black-lives-matter/ Ally Anti-Racism Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MjUESaOh2H-846KKiHUWHDUIhi3PlaFts-rqy9EQ43g/edit# We’ve also made a donation to the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org/ Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ New merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descentFeaturing art by Rob Soto! https://www.rob-soto.com/ 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, David. Hello, Will.
0:21.2	And hello, listeners.
0:22.7	Welcome to episode 90 of the Common Descent Podcast.
0:26.5	9-0.
0:27.6	9-0.
0:28.5	What's on the agenda today?
0:30.0	We are going to talk about living fossils.
0:33.0	Ooh, a controversial episode.
0:35.4	Yeah, very much so.
0:37.5	This is a term that I would be, I would hazard, if I had a gambling problem,
0:43.0	I'd hazard a bet that almost all of our listeners have heard this term.
0:46.6	It's a pretty common term.
0:47.4	Like this is widely used.
0:49.7	It gets thrown around a lot.
0:51.8	News, movies, games, all over the place.
0:54.5	It's popular.
0:55.7	And this is a term that is typically used to refer to creatures or, you know, any form of life.
1:02.6	There are plants and stuff that fall into this.
1:04.6	But usually it gets thrown at animals because of features they have that either make them seem like they should fit within the fossil record
1:15.7	or make them look like fossil members of their lineage.
1:20.3	Right. This came right out of the Jurassic period.
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