Spook-E - People-Eating Plants

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 66 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 consider a classic category of plants-turned-monsters. How might natural selection produce a predatory plant with a taste for humans? Our creatures to create this time: people-eating plants. 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.
0:06.6	And welcome to spookulative evolution.
0:12.1	Hello, Allie.
0:13.1	Hello, Will.
0:15.0	And hello, David.
0:16.4	Feed me, Will.
0:19.1	And welcome, listeners, to 2021's spook-e-spiculative evolution.
0:26.7	Welcome back.
0:28.5	I'm so excited.
0:31.3	This year, our theme are monster plants, or plant monsters, whichever way you want to say it.
0:38.4	Monstrous plant monsters.
0:40.1	Yes.
0:40.7	That one.
0:41.4	It's that one.
0:43.3	Basically, plants doing things that they're not supposed to be.
0:47.4	Murder plants.
0:50.0	Plants undertaking activities that are worthy of the month of October.
0:53.3	Yeah.
0:53.7	Yeah.
0:54.1	A lot of them, it's. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
0:54.8	A lot of them, it's whenever plants are acting like animals is often...
1:00.1	Yes.
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