Spook-E - Fairies

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. October is Spook-E Season on Common Descent! Each episode, we pick monsters from fiction and fable and ponder how they – or something like them – could evolve here on Earth, pulling inspiration from real-world species across our planet’s history. This year’s theme is Tiny Monsters. This episode, we explore a favorite of fanciful fables. How might natural selection produce diminutive humanoids with a knack for mischief and mayhem? Our creatures to create this time: Fairies. Join the Common Descent Discord server for more Spook-E discussion! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast More ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent 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.
0:06.7	And welcome to Spookulative Evolution.
0:12.0	Hello, David.
0:14.0	Well.
0:16.6	And hello, listeners.
0:19.4	Welcome to our second episode of Spooky, 2024.
0:24.5	Spuulative Evolution, where we continue our Halloween-themed series of evolving monsters,
0:32.8	monsters, creatures, and critters from myth and fiction, and saying what would it take for some of these things
0:38.6	to actually be a real creature? What evolutionary pressures? What type of animal? What things would
0:46.3	lead to something that looks like? In this case, fairies. Ferrys. We're doing tiny monsters this
0:51.5	year. Yes, indeed. So this was another one that had to be on this list.
0:56.2	Obviously.
0:57.4	Tiny monsters, including whatever was small enough and fit what we thought would be fun
1:02.1	enough.
1:02.9	So who knows what else is going to show up.
1:05.1	Something that was small.
1:06.0	Yeah, small and sort of a monster.
1:07.8	This episode, we are doing fairies, which are kind of an interesting one,
1:12.2	because I don't know that most people would list them as monsters. Yeah, and indeed, for a little
1:16.3	behind the scenes glimpse, originally this was our idea for cutie this year. But it's not anymore.
1:22.5	But it's not. Here it is in the monster list. This is also kind of like when we were doing dragons.
1:29.9	This is one of those where we're going to go over the history before we do,
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