Nearly all animals have some form of nervous system, and this system is often monitored and regulated by a brain. We humans are particularly proud of our enormous brains, but these organs come in all shapes and sizes across the animal kingdom, past and present. In this episode, we discuss brain diversity, the sometimes roundabout ways we explore brains in the fossil record, and what we’ve come to learn about the evolution of brains.
In the news: turtle embryo, frog-legged leaf beetle, early lizard cousin, and tyrannosaur brains.
Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:06:15
Main discussion, Part 1: 00:34:00
Main discussion, Part 2: 01:12:45
Patron question: 02:05:00
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Episode 96 - Marsupials
Episode 95 – The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse
Episode 94 - Dogs
Episode 93 - Cats
Episode 92 - Eggs
Episode 91 - Frogs
Episode 90 - "Living Fossils"
Episode 89 - The Burgess Shale
Live Chat - Conservation Paleontology
Live Chat - Paleopathology
Episode 88 - Evolution of Teeth
Live Chat - Turtles
Episode 87 - Ceratopsians, the Horned Dinosaurs
Live Chat - Ancient DNA
Episode 86 - New Zealand
Episode 85 – The Ordovician Mass Extinction
Silver Screen Science - Animals of the James Bond Franchise
Silver Screen Science - Godzilla (1998)
Episode 84 - Paleopathology
Silver Screen Science - Evolution (2001)
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