Spook-E - The Kraken

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. It’s October once again and time for Spook-E! Each episode throughout this month, we’re choosing a monster and discussing how it – or something like – might evolve biologically, pulling inspiration from critters of the real world. This month’s theme: sea monsters. This episode, we discuss one of the most famous fictional sea creatures of all. How might natural selection give us a ship-wrecking cephalopod of titanic proportions? Our creature to create this time: the Kraken. Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:06.7	And welcome to Spuiculative Evolution.
0:12.2	Hello, David.
0:13.3	Release the new series of Spooky, Will.
0:17.3	Hello, listeners.
0:19.6	Welcome to spooky.
0:23.6	Spuculative evolution, back for 2020.
0:26.9	It's back.
0:27.9	We have a new series of spooky episodes where we are going to look at the speculative evolution of certain monsters, myths, and creatures.
0:37.3	Yes. This series, we are, and creatures. Yes.
0:38.6	This series, we are doing theme monsters.
0:41.7	Oh, and boy, are we excited.
0:43.5	Yes.
0:43.9	Now, a quick intro for anyone who might be new to spooky.
0:47.0	The point of this series is to explore speculative evolution.
0:51.2	You know, when we do thought experiments, you know, mental exercises around
0:56.8	the concept of evolution, how things could evolve, how they might evolve, alternate evolutions
1:02.2	for things, it's just thought experiments.
1:05.3	Mm-hmm.
1:05.6	But we're applying it to monsters.
1:08.1	Because it's October.
1:09.3	Because it's October.
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