Spook-E - Mandrakes

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2021

⏱️ 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 famous 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: monster plants. This episode, we evaluate a famous and deadly monster favored by healers and witches. How can we use nature’s toolkit to evolve a baby-shaped root with a fatal scream? Our creatures to create this time: mandrakes. Featuring special guest, Dr. Aly Baumgartner, our favorite paleobotanist! Follow Aly on Twitter or Instagram @paleolorax 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/4c68u4hp Find Spook-E merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent 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/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 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 spuculative evolution.
0:12.1	Hello, Ali.
0:13.1	Hello, Will.
0:15.1	Hello, David.
0:16.1	Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
0:18.6	And hello, listeners.
0:22.0	Welcome to episode three of 2021's Spookulative Evolution.
0:27.6	Spooky.
0:28.7	Today we're talking about mandrakes.
0:30.8	Oh.
0:32.1	Well, last two episodes.
0:36.0	Last two episodes.
0:37.0	We talked about human eating plants and moving trees.
0:41.5	Yes.
0:42.3	So in this episode, we were going to talk about mandrix.
0:44.7	Now, for anyone new to this series, Spuulative Evolution, or Spook E, is our series where we take classic monsters, creatures, creatures, critters from movies, myths, and legend
0:56.2	and say what if they were to evolve on our planet under the rules of evolution and natural selection?
1:03.4	How could something come to be that resembled them?
1:07.7	So we put our scientific experience and knowledge and creativity to the test of
1:12.5	trying to do just that. Yeah. Now it's just meant to be fun. It's not meant to be anything
1:16.2	you know, definitive or definite on the history of these creatures or which features we decide to
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