Pleistocene Megafauna and Overkill Hypothesis - Ep 138
January 9, 2023
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Episode 138 · January 9, 2023
Pleistocene Megafauna and Overkill Hypothesis - Ep 138
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Summary
On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, Carlton is off galivanting across Europe and you know what that means; chaos. Connor and David talk about megafauna, the overkill hypothesis and get real weird.
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Literature Recommendations
* Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions by Jack M. Broughton & Elic M. Weitzel (2018) in Nature Communications [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07897-1]
* Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America's Ice Age megafauna by David J. Meltzer (2020) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2015032117]
* Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals by J. Tyler Faith and Todd A. Surovell (2009) in in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0908153106]
* Test of Martin's overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna Todd A. Surovell, Spencer R. Pelton, Richard Anderson-Sprecher, and Adam D. Myers (2015) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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