Spook-E - Gorgons

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. It’s October, and we’re back with more Spook-E! Each week this month, we’re choosing a creepy creature and discussing how it – or something like – might evolve biologically, pulling inspiration from critters of the real world. This month’s theme: monsters of Greek mythology. This episode, we're talking about Medusa and her kin. How could natural selection produce a serpentine humanoid with snakes for hair and a gaze that turns people to stone? Our creatures to create this time: Gorgons. Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ 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/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. Muscial Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:07.0	And welcome to Spookulative Evolution.
0:12.0	Hello, David.
0:13.0	Hello, Will Harris.
0:18.0	And hello, listeners.
0:19.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode two of Spooky, listeners. Hello, everybody.
0:24.4	Welcome to episode two of spooky 2019.
0:25.1	Spooky!
0:29.5	This episode is following up our last one where we talked about the harpy.
0:32.8	We're now talking about Greek myth monsters this year.
0:52.5	This series, once again, the point is to take a monster, look at how it would evolve, think of how we would naturally achieve either the appearance or the actual thing, or as close as we can get to both of those, and how we would explain its weird abilities or of traits.
0:58.6	How would we build this monster using the limited tool set of Earth-based natural selection?
1:03.8	It's meant to be fun. It's meant to be a little silly. It's not meant to be the definitive say-so on either evolution or this creature. It's speculative evolution with a Halloween
1:09.8	twist.
1:13.9	This episode, we're talking about Gorgans.
1:14.9	Gorgans.
1:15.6	Gorgans. So the Gorgon, or Gorgans, usually there's three, are a very famous.
1:23.4	Like nowadays, a lot of people know about them.
1:25.8	Usually they call them Medusa's.
1:27.4	Yeah.
1:27.9	Though that's inaccurate for one very clear reason in their stories usually.
1:31.9	But Gorgans are really well known as a Greek monster today.
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