Alien Biospheres

In this preliminary episode Biblaridion employs the assistance of Artifexian with making and a habitable planet. 0:00 - Intro 1:58 - Star 2:52 - Planet 3:52 - Atmosphere 5:02 - Moon 5:37 - Tectonics

A brief overview of some of the important occurrences in our fictional planet's early history and an exploration on the evolution and development of body plans. 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - First life 3:28 - Biodiversification event 5:04 - Body plans 7:22 - Symmetry 8:30 - Sessility 9:52 - Motility 12:22 - Cephalization 15:59 - Reproduction

This time we have our alien bodyplans evolve into clades, each occupying different niches in the ecosystem of our ancient sea. 0:00 - Clades 1:19 - Niches 2:10 - Plankton 3:29 - Tachypods 5:33 - Gastrozoans 6:26 - Acanthopods 8:27 - Benthos 9:06 - Sarcopods 11:48 - Neoteny 13:37 - Tentaclostomes

Our primitive clades are ready to leave the water and colonize the land, and in so doing undergo a bevy of adaptations to specialize for terrestrial life. 0:00 - Land 2:50 - Terrestrial Chemotrophs 6:42 - Chemophytes 11:22 - Lophostomes 17:04 - Osteopods

Our two body plans compete for dominance of the first terrestrial ecosystems. 0:00 - Climate 1:17 - Chemophytes 2:10 - Saprotrophs 3:17 - Lophostomes 4:31 - Malacoforms 7:20 - Diplostomes 10:56 - Stenostracans 11:57 - Coleostracans 13:45 - Osteopods 16:24 - Niche partitioning 17:37 - Platydonts 18:30 - Desmostracans 19:35 - Megalobrachids 20:34 - Dromaeopods 21:16 - Elastospondyls 22:47 - Deinognathans

We follow and observe the global clades and their further radial diversification on the two distinct continental plates. 0:00 Campfire 0:59 Intro 2:21 Ice Age 3:07 Allopatry 4:09 The Eastern Continent 6:02 Leptopods 6:45 Intraspecific Competition 8:22 Cryptodonts 10:00 Durophagy 11:45 Pleuropterans 14:14 The Western Continent 16:13 Ensidonts 16:58 Allobrachids 18:49 New megafauna 20:55 Bateman’s principle 22:02 Sequential hermaphroditism 23:18 Sexual selection 25:29 Fisherian Runaway 27:34 Amphidonts 28:29 Monogamy 31:26 Altriciality 33:41 Semelparity 37:00 Parasitism 38:21 Ectoparasitism 40:47 Endoparasitism 43:25 Heteroxeny 45:37 Summary

A change in atmosphere and vegetation forces our terrestrial clades to adapt to life in open habitats. 0:00 - Climate change 2:12 - Brachyphytes 4:32 - Lophostomes 5:19 - Opisthopterans 11:15 - Titanopods 15:24 - Eurycheirids 18:49 - Leptopods 21:41 - Onychodonts

We follow various terrestrial clades as they make the transition back into aquatic life. 0:00 - Intro 1:15 - Orthorhachids 2:30 - Hadrorhacids 3:28 - Ptilopods 5:33 - Teleopterids 8:39 - Dorypods 9:55 - Temnopods 11:09 - Tanypterids 12:22 - Remipterids 14:30 - Anostracans 15:52 - Trichopods 17:36 - Myzostomes 18:29 - Metaxypods 19:33 - Climate change 21:30 - Semi-aquatic 22:25 - Copetarsans 23:31 - Prenobrachids 24:54 - Trachygnathans 27:02 - Dolichognathans 29:15 - Actatheres 30:48 - Thalattotheres 33:20 - Isopterygians 33:59 - Anisopterygians

We follow various terrestrial clades as they adapt to harsher and harsher climates. 0:00 Climate 2:10 Seasonal plants 4:12 Xerostracans 5:39 Opisthopterans 10:06 Tylophytes 14:14 Amblypods 17:49 Lystrocheirids 23:53 Tundra megafauna 26:49 Thylacopods 30:20 Thecopods

We peer into the radial evolution and stratification of various clades which inhabit the spares tropical regions. 0:00 Rainforest 3:08 Forest floor 5:15 Deceptive pollination 6:48 Decomposers 8:03 Defensive mimicry 9:25 Müllerian mimicry 12:14 Epiphytes 14:11 Pollination 18:55 Seed dispersal 21:14 Scansoriality 23:08 Suspensoriality 24:25 Brachiation 26:59 Flight 29:46 Venom 31:59 Batesian mimicry 33:24 Venomous predators 35:11 Aggressive mimicry 36:54 Summary

We peer into the clades which have propagated to sparse island habitats and their diversification. 0:00 Campfire 1:07 Intro 3:22 Isla Proxima 5:06 Insular dwarfism 6:58 Insular gigantism 11:05 Drift fruit 14:06 Rafting 18:41 Adaptive radiation 21:57 Invasive species 23:28 Knuckle-walking 25:35 Feeding claws 27:55 Sea ice 30:24 Flightless swimmers 35:15 Succession 39:59 Flightless herbivores 42:49 Flightless predators 43:30 Summary

We focus back to the global clades and look into the origins and development of sociality and cooperation. 0:00 Campfire 1:04 Intro 2:24 Mutualism 7:04 Sociality 9:50 Reciprocal Altruism 11:24 Sound 14:07 Pack hunting 17:41 Lekking 22:33 Harems 26:03 Dominance hierarchies 29:37 Dispersal 30:30 Parental care 32:31 Inclusive fitness 34:44 Helpers at the nest 38:52 Reproductive suppression 40:49 Eusociality 47:35 Coloniality 51:38 Summary

We observe and play-out the various clades pre and post continental collision. 0:00 Campfire 1:04 Intro 3:27 Land Area 7:45 Polygynandry 10:59 Large herbivores 12:40 Lack’s Principle 14:48 Predators 16:14 Armor 17:54 Kleptoparasitism 20:35 Infrared sensing 23:31 Parasitoidy 26:51 Generalists 28:28 Polyandry 33:20 Parental care 35:20 Brood parasitism 39:09 Septentria 40:08 Parasitic Plants 41:46 Carnivorous Plants 45:03 Electroreception 48:07 Male-only parental care 50:32 Echolocation 52:39 Summary

we step through the processes of mass extinction, view those clades who survive as well as, those who fail to adapt. 0:00 Intro 4:52 The extinction begins 8:02 Specialists 12:38 Body size 16:20 Islands 17:54 Oceans 21:42 Extinction debt 24:43 Survivors 31:19 “Classes” 33:14 Adaptive radiation 37:14 Limblessness 39:06 Distropheognathans 41:34 Procaecoformes 45:13 Hylotheres 48:15 Peloropsids 49:44 Projectile weaponry 50:50 Chelae 52:10 Ceratodonts 56:08 Teleopsids 57:06 Freshwater 59:24 Oceans 1:02:49 Flightlessness 1:08:36 Rafting 1:13:42 Closing

We dive into the potential origins of sapience and its eventual development. 0:00 Campfire 1:08 Intro 4:18 What is sapience? 8:17 Instinctive vs. learned behaviors 14:21 Humanoids are teleological 16:03 Prerequisites for sapience 21:40 Sociality 24:12 Astrolophids 31:23 Diet 33:30 Manipulation 38:37 Habitat instability 42:04 Paleotecton 52:00 Neurological evolution 56:00 Pattern recognition 57:42 Symbolism 1:01:36 Language 1:04:40 Tool use 1:10:01 Migration and speciation 1:14:44 Instinctual lag 1:17:20 Senses 1:21:17 Reproduction 1:28:03 Morality 1:29:56 In-group vs. Out-group 1:35:12 The Uncertain Future