1/8: How will the 22nd Century judge the 17th to 21st centuries abuse of the North American animal kingdom? 1/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Kindle Edition by Dan Flores (Author)
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1/8: How will the 22nd Century judge the 17th to 21st centuries abuse of the North American animal kingdom? 1/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Kindle Edition by Dan Flores (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-New-World-Animals-America-ebook/dp/B09TQ2TMN2
Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Floresdescribes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I On The World. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:10.0 | This is CBS I On The World. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:15.0 | 66 million years ago, North America. |
| 0:18.0 | All North America divided into three parts. |
| 0:21.0 | Appalachia, the mid-continental waterway, |
| 0:26.0 | the interior waterway, and LaRamidia. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the basis to begin a conversation about |
| 0:34.0 | Wild New World, a new book from Dan Flores, |
| 0:38.0 | the AB Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History |
| 0:41.0 | at the University of Montana. |
| 0:43.0 | And what Dan takes us is a time travel |
| 0:46.0 | from 66 million years ago, |
| 0:49.0 | and the asteroid that changed the direction of evolution |
| 0:54.0 | to the period of time that we're living in now |
| 0:58.0 | called the Anthropocene, passing through |
| 1:01.0 | a very important detail from 10,000 years ago |
| 1:05.0 | called the Pleistocene. |
| 1:07.0 | This is the story of mammals chiefly, |
| 1:09.0 | but also the story of one kind of mammal. |
| 1:12.0 | That's us, the homo sapiens, the hominids who arrived twice. |
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