Roman Extinctions

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Humans are capable of amazing technological and societal feats, but we’ve also brought much misery, death and destruction to our world. We are currently in the midst of the sixth great extinction event -- the Holocene extinction -- and the ravages of human activity extend back throughout our history as a dominator species. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe focus in on some of the key extinctions that occurred during the Roman Empire.

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1:53.7	Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam, and I'm Jemma Kormick.
1:58.3	And today we're going to be talking about not just extinctions, but we're going to be talking about
2:03.1	Roman Extinctions. Extinctions that occurred during the time of the Roman Republic, but especially
2:09.0	the Roman Empire. That sounds like one of those names for like a made up,
2:13.1	lewd act, the Roman Extinction. Roman Extinctions. Maybe so. Good band name certainly.
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