Spook-E - Beholders

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. October is here, and that means it’s time for Spook-E! Each episode throughout this month, we’re choosing a monster and discussing how it – or something like it – might evolve under the rules of evolution and natural selection, pulling inspiration from organisms of the real world. This year’s theme: monsters of Dungeons and Dragons. This episode, we gaze upon something truly alien. Can we formulate an evolutionary path to produce a malicious floating orb creature that stares at the world through many eyes? Our creatures to create this time: Beholders. Join the Common Descent Discord server for more Spook-E discussion! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev And share your Spook-E musings on social media with the hashtag #SpookE Check out our blog for podcast info, fan art, and more!http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Or make a one-time donation via PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/4c68u4hpFind merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descentSubscribe for a free 30-day trial at Audible! www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent Follow and Support us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduwPodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at)gmail.comOr send us physical mail at:The Common Descent Podcast1735 W State of Franklin Rd. Ste 5 #165Johnson City, TN 37604 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.
0:07.0	And welcome to spuculative evolution.
0:12.0	Hello, David.
0:13.9	Well, that was a dice roll, everybody.
0:17.4	That was a 17.
0:18.5	That's a pretty good role.
0:19.3	Not bad.
0:19.9	All right. That bodes well for this episode.
0:22.0	Pretty good start.
0:22.9	Hello, listeners.
0:23.9	Welcome to episode three of this year's spookulative evolution.
0:28.8	Spooky.
0:29.8	This year we have been investigating the monsters of Dungeons and Dragons.
0:33.8	Hence the dice roll.
0:34.7	And we will continue this episode with The Beholder.
0:38.8	The whole spooky this year, we've chosen classic, iconic monsters of D&D, and there might be
0:44.9	no more classic or iconic D&D monster than Beholders. Oh yeah. So, on this series, we like to
0:53.9	investigate different kinds of classic, famous, and popular monsters
0:58.3	from myths, mythology, stories, so on and so forth, and take a look at under our real world
1:04.8	rules of evolution, how might these monsters evolve, or how might a creature evolve that
1:10.8	resembles and behaves and embodies the features of these monsters evolve, or how many a creature evolve that resembles and behaves and embodies
1:13.1	the features of these monsters. Yeah, if we were somehow to give the process of evolution
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