Spotlight - Alycia Stigall (3/5)

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Welcome to our Spotlight Series! We’re talking paleo-science with some paleo-people! In this 5-part series, we’ve interviewed 5 different invertebrate paleontologists about their research and other work. In Episode 3, our guest is Dr. Alycia Stigall, sharing with us her research on the best animals ever (according to her), brachiopods! And also discussing what it’s like to run a whole lab of paleontologists. Find Alycia in these places:http://www.alyciastigall.org/ Twitter: @alycia_stigall If you like Spotlight, let us know and we'll do more of it in the future! Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ 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.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, Will.
0:21.8	Hello, David.
0:22.9	Hello, Alicia.
0:23.9	Hello.
0:26.1	And hello to our listeners.
0:33.3	Welcome back to the third part of our Common Descent podcast special Spotlight mini-series. In this mini-series, instead of our normal format of discussing particular scientific topics,
0:38.9	we're focusing on scientific people working in our favorite field of science.
0:44.0	For this series, we've chosen the theme of invertebrate paleontology, and today we are joined
0:49.1	by paleontologist, Dr. Alicia Stegal.
0:52.6	Alicia, if you would, please introduce yourself to our listeners.
0:56.0	Hi, my name's Alicia Stagall, and I am a geology professor at Ohio University, and I'm
1:03.2	an invertebrate paleontologist, and I focus on questions related to how species form,
1:10.2	whether or not they change, how they relate to the environment.
1:13.3	And I use my favorite group of fossils, the brachyopods, to help answer those questions.
1:17.9	Very cool. Yes. And we'll ask you about a few of those different things.
1:21.5	But let's start with the research you mentioned, in particular those wonderful organisms, our paleo-familiar listeners
1:30.8	will probably recognize the word brachyapod. They're a pretty big deal in geology. But for the
1:36.2	people that don't know, could you explain to us what are brachyopods? And why are they so cool?
1:40.2	Yeah, absolutely. So if you were going to get in a time machine and go back to visit the
1:46.9	ancient oceans, anytime between about 500 million years ago and 250 million years ago,
1:54.0	and you're walking on the beach and you're picking up shells, the shells that you would pick up
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