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Wild New World The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Dan Flores

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,4...

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The MeatEater Podcast

Dan Flores' new book, "Wild New World," was mentioned in a conversation about the need to explain the evolution of a thought when discussing certain historical topics.

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I recently interviewed Dan Flores about his new book Wild New World

— Episode: Ep. 472: The American Buffalo with Ken B...

Episode: Ep. 472: The American Buffalo with Ken Burns

Dan Flores' new book, "Wild New World," was mentioned in a conversation about the need to explain the evolution of a thought when discussing certain historical topics.

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I recently interviewed Dan Flores about his new book Wild New World

Episode: Ep. 470: Identifying Tweety Birds With the Merlin...

It was mentioned in relation to a discussion about the surprisingly small number of bird species with a global population exceeding one billion.

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I read it in a book called Wild New World by the historian Dan Flores.

Episode: Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann

An ecological history of the continent, starting with the Chicxulub asteroid impact and covering the Audubon Society and its namesake's complicated legacy.

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I just read uh Dan Flory's very great book Wild New World which is a ecological history of well he came on the damn show so he wrote an ecological history of the continent where where do you begin he began with the Chicxulub strike which is the asteroid that collided with uh into the Gulf of Mexico off of uh tells that place over there off the Yucatan Peninsula at a angle that he described very eloquently

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