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3/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores (Author)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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3/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America 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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com slash taste match independent tests from May 2023. This is CBS, I am the World. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Dan Flores. The book is

0:36.4

Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people in America. The large

0:42.4

predators, the large mammals, mastodons, dire wolves, saber-toothed

0:46.9

tigers removed. Opens up what Den introduces me to call niches, and those niches have replacements.

0:56.5

This is a profound turn for the Hunter Gathering groups societies that spread across North America.

1:05.0

Then the filling of these niches, that's part of a story that's ongoing through all of these

1:11.4

epochs that we're talking about, that there's a balance, and when that

1:16.4

balance is disturbed, nature seeks stability again. Is that the way to read this, Professor?

1:24.0

Well, that is certainly a way to read it. I would say that whenever a niche opens where there is, example the possibility of grazing on immense grasslands that once had been home to

1:39.4

Mammoths and other grazing creatures, what tends to happen in response and what happened in

1:46.8

North America 10,000 years ago is that an animal that is left like the bison is going to expand into that niche that's been

1:58.8

abandoned by other creatures.

2:01.5

And this is when we see the huge population explosion of the

2:06.2

American bison into the millions that we think of in our last four or five hundred years of history.

2:14.7

And it's a smaller animal than the bison

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