Spook-E - Harpies

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

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🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 41 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 turn to the multitude of stories about winged bird-like humanoids. How do you evolve something with wings and claws, a human face, and a penchant for thievery? Our creatures to create this time: Harpies. 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.
0:12.3	Hello, David.
0:13.8	Caca, Will.
0:16.6	And hello, listeners.
0:18.7	Hello, everybody.
0:19.8	And welcome to October. It is indeed. It's everybody. And welcome to October.
0:21.7	It is indeed.
0:22.3	It's October.
0:23.2	And some of you who have been listening to us for a while might remember that last October we did something a little special.
0:29.5	Last October, we started a series, a special Halloween October series on the suggestion of one of our patrons, actually.
0:37.6	Indeed. Renee gave us this idea. Yes. To do some monster discussions, some speculative evolution
0:45.6	discussions based on our favorite monsters. And we're doing it again this year. Spookulative
0:51.8	evolution. So welcome back to Spooky, everyone. Spooky is back
0:56.0	2019. Yeah. So for anyone who's new to those series, the whole goal of this series, this, this
1:03.5	little side project is to take some of the most famous and our favorite monsters and creatures
1:09.5	and talk about how might they come to be in
1:14.3	the natural world. How could something like this evolve? What would its evolutionary history be?
1:21.3	How could we get something close? Maybe not exactly the creature, but something resembling that
1:27.0	you would want to name after that
1:28.4	creature.
1:29.5	Or how can we answer some of its weird features with natural solutions?
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