Spook-E - Werewolves

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. It's October, so we're exploring some more speculative evolution with a spooky twist! Each week this month, we'll be choosing a creepy creature and discussing how it - or something like it - might evolve biologically, pulling inspiration from the critters of the real world. This episode, we contemplate the evolution of aggressive predators that spread madness with their bite and get particularly nasty when the moon is full. How might evolution produce the lycanthropes of lore? Our creatures to create: Werewolves. 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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:06.8	And welcome to spookulative evolution.
0:12.1	Hello, David.
0:14.0	Hello.
0:16.8	And hello, listeners.
0:18.9	We have a tradition now.
0:20.5	I like the tradition.
0:22.4	Hello everybody.
0:23.7	Welcome to episode two of Spook E, our Halloween October series of how monsters might evolve.
0:33.6	We today are going to be discussing werewolves.
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.1	So this series is focusing on how might creatures of our stories, of our fantasy, of our
0:46.9	movies evolve naturally.
0:50.5	How could something similar to them evolve or how could we get features that we are used to seeing in these classic monsters come about biologically in a natural way?
1:03.7	Yeah, speculative evolution, as we've discussed before, is this fun critical thinking, using your imagination to fit fictional creatures into a biological
1:14.3	reality.
1:15.3	It's a brain exercise, which is what we'll be doing just for fun.
1:19.3	None of this is absolute, but it is sure a lot of fun.
1:22.9	We enjoy it a lot.
1:25.7	As per usual with these episodes, we're going to start with a bit of history about our monster
1:30.5	and then go into how something similar to or the features of a werewolf might be able to evolve.
1:40.8	So jumping in, werewolves in history are actually all over the place. This is going to be
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