Spook-E - Redcaps

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 56 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, there’s trouble afoot. How could biological processes generate ornery little fiends with gruesome headgear? Our creatures to create this time: Redcaps. 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.
0:07.0	And welcome to Spookulative Evolution.
0:12.0	Hello, David.
0:12.8	Hello, Will.
0:15.8	And hello, listeners.
0:17.8	Welcome to episode four of Spooky 2024.
0:21.7	The last one.
0:22.6	Last one.
0:23.4	This is the final of our four spooky episodes before we do QD, which is also coming up.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.3	And as is tradition, we saved one of the weirdest for last.
0:34.0	This year we're doing tiny monsters, so inevitably we had to do some sort of like imp.
0:40.8	Sure.
0:41.3	But imp is not actually like a thing.
0:45.8	Right.
0:46.0	It's a very catch-all phrase.
0:47.2	Yeah, it's similar to what we talked about with fairies, but fairy is a term.
0:51.2	But imps are often fairies.
0:52.7	When I looked up imp, it just was like,
0:54.8	ah, it's a little mischievous dude.
0:58.7	I did not find a lot of imp capital I.
1:02.9	So what we went with was the red cap,
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