Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Inquiry: TWILIGHT OF THE MAMMOTHS: ICE AGE EXTINCTIONS AND THE REWILDING OF AMERICA

 Have humans, as a species, always been horribly destructive to the environment? That is one conclusion you may draw when you listen to tonight’s discussion with PAUL S. MARTIN, Emeritus Professor of Geosciences, Desert Laboratory, University of Arizona. Professor Martin has spent a lifetime investigating what caused the mass extinctions of all the large mammals in North and South America seemingly just after the arrival of humans. His answers may shock you. His thought-provoking book is TWILIGHT OF THE MAMMOTHS: ICE AGE EXTINCTIONS AND THE REWILDING OF AMERICA.