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The Common Descent Podcast

Live Chat - Conservation Paleontology

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this series, we invite scientists to live Q&As on YouTube, where we discuss topics we’ve covered before on the podcast. This episode, we discussed Conservation Paleontology (Episode 8) with Dr. Rachel Short and Dr. Jeff Martin of Texas A&M University.  You can find the video recording on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfdiT8Klm_YO04cvDqZ-_O3Iiq0J5GZJz Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ New merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Featuring art by Rob Soto! https://www.rob-soto.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast Instagram: @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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.

0:19.0

Hello, Will.

0:20.4

And hello, Rachel and Jeff. Hello, David.

0:21.6

And hello, Rachel and Jeff.

0:23.6

Hello.

0:24.6

And hello, YouTube.

0:26.6

And welcome back to live chat, our fourth live chat of this little mini series we've been

0:32.2

doing, our last one for now.

0:33.6

Yes.

0:34.6

But to celebrate the last of them, we're having a double feature.

0:40.0

So we have two guests today instead of just one, which has been what we've normally been doing.

0:46.3

For anyone just joining us, this is a series where we invite guests for a Q&A about topics we've discussed on the podcast before. Today we are talking about

0:56.4

conservation paleontology, which is a field of paleont where you're using fossil information

1:01.9

to help inform conservation of living species. It's actually way back in episode eight, our first

1:07.7

listener requested episode. It was. Yeah. So it's a historic little moment.

1:11.8

It was one of the first topics we got requested to do that.

1:14.6

We both went, oh.

1:17.0

And then we did it.

1:19.1

So, without further rambling from me, Rachel and Jeff, if you would please introduce

1:25.3

yourselves what you do and what is your relation to this

1:30.1

field of study?

1:31.5

I'll go first.

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