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Slack.com slash DHQ. This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. This is CBS Eye

on the World. I'm John Bachelor. 66 million years ago, North America, all North America

divided into three parts. Appalachia, the mid-continental waterway, the interior waterway,

and LaRamidia. This is the basis to begin a conversation about wild new world. A new book

from Dan Flores, the AB Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of

Montana. Dan takes a time travel from 66 million years ago and the asteroid that changed the

direction of evolution to the period of time that we're living in now called the Anthropocene,

passing through a very important detail from 10,000 years ago called the Pleistocene. This

is the story of mammals chiefly, but also the story of one kind of mammal. That's us,

the homo sapiens, the hominids who arrived twice, first from Eurasia, thousands of years

ago, and then second from Eurasia again within our memory, the so-called colonial Eurasians.

Dan, a very good evening to you. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to speak to you

because of the sweep of your story and also what I learned is the philosophy of dealing with

the wild animals of North America. We begin with the dinosaur exit and the rebirth in the paleocene

period. The mammals that we speak of often now today, we speak of the reduction of the buffalo,

we speak of the wolf, we speak of the white tail deer. These were all developing during this long

period of time from the exit of the dinosaur. We're going to concentrate on the Pleistocene.

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