Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments (Hardcover)) (Hardback) - Common Cover
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Twilight of the Mammoths Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments (Hardcover)) (Hardback) - Common

Paul S. Martin

As recently as 11,000 years ago - "near time" to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vani...

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The MeatEater Podcast

It was mentioned as a recommended book to learn more about the Pleistocene extinctions and the debate surrounding the role of human influence versus climate change in the demise of mammoths and other megafauna. The author was a major advocate for the "Pleistocene overkill" hypothesis.

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Paul Martin, in his great book, really the last book he wrote, and the book that if people want to read about this I think I would encourage them to read, is called The Twilight of the Mammoths.

— Episode: Ep. 069: Dr. Dan Flores

Episode: Ep. 069: Dr. Dan Flores

It was mentioned as a recommended book to learn more about the Pleistocene extinctions and the debate surrounding the role of human influence versus climate change in the demise of mammoths and other megafauna. The author was a major advocate for the "Pleistocene overkill" hypothesis.

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Paul Martin, in his great book, really the last book he wrote, and the book that if people want to read about this I think I would encourage them to read, is called The Twilight of the Mammoths.

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