Silver Screen Science - Evolution (2001)

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

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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There’s a pandemic on, and we and many of our listeners are spending lots of time at home. On the bright side, it’s a good opportunity to watch movies and record Silver Screen Science! So, we’re putting together some new episodes, to keep you – and ourselves – entertained. This episode, ca-caw ca-caw tookie tookie: Evolution (2001) 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/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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will.
0:20.0	Hello, David.
0:20.7	Hello, listeners, Hello, David.
0:26.5	Hello, listeners, and welcome to the Common Descent podcast with Silver Screen Science.
0:27.3	Back again.
0:40.1	This is our series where we look at the science of movies, not just nitpicking, but the broader way that the movies treat science, scientists, and our personal favorite subjects in science,
0:44.6	animals and prehistoric things and history of life and such.
0:45.0	Yes.
0:48.4	Today we are discussing evolution.
0:49.4	The movie.
0:50.0	The movie.
0:52.0	Well, the 2001 movie. Yeah.
0:52.6	I'm sure that there are more than one movie called Evolution.
0:56.4	The 2001 film Evolution was released by DreamWorks and Columbia Pictures, and it stars a bunch of names that belong in better movies than this, I think.
1:07.0	Oh, yeah, like, it's got quite the cast.
1:09.5	It's got David DeCovny, Orlando Jones,
1:12.1	Sean William Scott, Julianne Moore, and Ted Levine. Yep. It's quite a cast. Will, would you like to
1:18.1	explain the general plot? Absolutely. So, so this movie begins on a meteorite entering Earth's
1:27.4	atmosphere and crashing down when it is discovered or,
1:32.9	you know, examined by the local scientists, they find that it is teeming with life. Life that
1:40.4	evolves particularly fast. And as the movie progresses, the life evolves out of control.
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