Yuval Noah Harari
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a Brief History of Humankind - Lesson 04 - part 2 - Dr. Yuval Noah Harari
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20:31Now PlayingLesson 4 - The Human Flood - Part 2
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Following the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens spread all over the planet. While doing this, it drove numerous other species to extinction. In Australia, up to 95% of all large animal species vanished. In America, 84 of 107 large mammal species disappeared. Altogether, about half of the large terrestrial mammals that populated Earth became extinct. How could a few million individuals who possessed no more than Stone Age technology have caused such devastation?
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