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The MeatEater Podcast
The podcast mentioned Geist's book on mule deer, particularly his theory about their evolution as a recent hybridization event between white-tailed and black-tailed deer, approximately 10,000 years ago. His ideas, though sometimes considered unconventional, sparked discussion and further research on the topic.
I remember someone saying that he will kind of like light a fuse and then leave the room by tossing something in.
— Episode: Ep. 162: Landscape of Fear
Episode: Ep. 162: Landscape of Fear
The podcast mentioned Geist's book on mule deer, particularly his theory about their evolution as a recent hybridization event between white-tailed and black-tailed deer, approximately 10,000 years ago. His ideas, though sometimes considered unconventional, sparked discussion and further research on the topic.
I remember someone saying that he will kind of like light a fuse and then leave the room by tossing something in.
Yeah, I've read Val Geist's book and there was a...he talks about basically it mule deer were crossed between black tail and white tail deer.
So under Geist theory they're basically been around 10,000 years.
And when I read that I instantly thought well I was skeptical. Also as within anything with science there's usually some counterpoints and I got digging around and there's other theories of maybe glaciers separated deer and then they evolved into those different species that we know today.
So it's a Pleistocene-Holocene transition.