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And welcome to Spuculative Evolution.

Hello, David.

And hello, listeners, and welcome to this month's final installation of spuculative evolution.

Last one.

Yeah, and as you may have realized, it is about zambles.

Zambles!

Zambles, and we will be discussing, as is tradition, as speculative evolution goes, how these creatures, and these are a weird one because they're actually not creatures themselves, but the afflicted, which we'll talk about, how they could have actually evolved through scientific evolution and how we could answer them through already existing biological

features through known paths of evolution and what could be some alternative options to get

a zombie-like creature looking at it from a scientist's point of view.

Indeed, indeed.

And that's where we're going to start.

Now, zombies are a little bit

different than what we've looked at so far. They're kind of closer to the vampires in that typically

vampires are people who have been cursed or raised or somehow affected by an undeth-like state.

Zombies are, by definition, the resurrected dead.

Yeah, they're corpses, animated corpses.

And they always have been.

There's always been an element with zombies that they were reanimated dead.

But it's been very different reasons why they were reanimated throughout their

history. So zombies are a bit weird because they don't have one single storyline. I mean,

none of the monsters we talked about always had one thread, but zombies started in a completely

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