10. A Song of Ice and More Ice: Ice Ages

Adapt or Die! The Evolutionary Biology of Pop Culture

Episode Description:
Welcome to this brand new episode of Adapt or Die! The evolutionary biology of pop culture hosted by Austin Ashbaugh. The current cultural phenomenon we are discussing this season is Pokémon and todays episode is focused on the Ice type. Our evolutionary connection to the ice type is ice ages.
In the Safari Zone, I get into What ice ages are, what a glacier is and how they affected the environments we see today and how some pokémon show the impact of glaciation on evolution. During the pokémon professors rant, I appropriately rant about the brittleness of ice type pokémon. Lastly, we will end todays episode with describing a regional variant of the Froakie line and results from our latest pokémon spectacular competition. Sit back and relax in a chair older than yourself, open an old dusty tome, and join me as we adapt or die!
Link to Google Slides of Pokémon discussed in this episode
Resources cited for research in this episode:
1. Mark, B. G., & Fernández, A. (2017). The significance of mountain glaciers as sentinels of climate and environmental change. _Geography Compass_, _11_(6), e12318.
2. Marshall, S. J., James, T. S., & Clarke, G. K. (2002). North American ice sheet reconstructions at the Last Glacial Maximum. _Quaternary Science Reviews_, _21_(1-3), 175-192.
3. Raymo, M. E., & Huybers, P. (2008). Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages. _Nature_, _451_(7176), 284-285.
4. https://www.serebii.net/pokemon/type/ice/

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