Spook-E - Displacer Beasts

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 48 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 roll out a monster that’s tough to get grasp on. From where on the tree of life might we develop a many-limbed predator with a knack for fooling the eye? Our creatures to create this time: Displacer beasts. 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.
0:06.8	And welcome to Spookulative Evolution.
0:11.8	Hello, David.
0:13.3	Roll initiative, Will.
0:16.2	And hello listeners.
0:18.3	Welcome to episode two of Spooky 2020.
0:22.0	Spooky.
0:22.7	That's a lot of twos.
0:23.7	A lot of twos.
0:25.0	This year we are doing monsters of dungeons and dragons.
0:29.1	Oh boy, oh boy.
0:29.9	And this episode we are visiting the displacer beast.
0:32.9	Yeah.
0:34.0	Another classic and weird creature.
0:36.9	Oh, it's so cool, but so bizarre.
0:39.4	Once again, this series, spooky, spookulative evolution is a series where we take
0:44.4	classic and popular monsters and creatures of myth, movie, and stories, and figure out using
0:51.9	our real world evolutionary rules of natural selection,
0:56.8	how could a creature that resembles and behaves like that monster come to exist?
1:03.3	A bit of speculative evolution themed for the holiday.
1:06.5	Indeed.
1:07.6	And once again, for this year, we are investigating the monsters of Dungeons and Dragons, D&D, which, for anyone who's never played it before, is the tabletop role-playing game where you make a character, roll some dice to see how good they do at different things, and typically fight monsters.
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