Episode 201 - Fungi and Plants

The Common Descent Podcast

Our fungal celebration continues!

The relationship between fungi and plants is one of the most famous and consequential connections in biological history. This episode, Aly is here to help us explore how fungi and plants work together and work against each other, what we know about the deep history of their relationship, and how fungi and plants together have shaped the world as we know it.

Fungi will return…

In the news: toothy birds, polar forests, coelacanth evolution, and a Pennsylvanian lagerstatte.

Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:07:35
Main discussion, Part 1: 00:36:40
Main discussion, Part 2: 01:40:15
Patron question: 02:40:30

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The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org

Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0