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Not likely, says University of Arizona Geochronologist* Paul Martin. Writing in the current issue of Natural History, he suggests it was "overkill," not "overchill," that caused the disappearance of large numbers of species. In North America, as well as on other continents, he says, "the pattern and timing of large...
Primitive Version. To support this hypothesis, Martin points out that the large mammals that perished during the Late Pleistocene had survived previous advances and retreats of the ice sheets. And although scientists generally agree that the major climatic changes of the past 50,000 years occurred at approximately the same...
To relieve the magazine's annual deficit of $200,000 or so, Buckley contributes his own substantial earnings from his column, from Firing Line, and from his lectures (fee per appearance: $1,000). Nevertheless, every year he has to warn of the magazine's imminent extinction unless contributions...
OUR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of eight NBC news specials outlining the American Profile. Ed Dodd, conservationist and creator of the Mark Trail cartoon strip, narrates this study of the various animals and birds in danger of extinction.
It is true enough that the passenger pigeon has been hunted to extinction (the last bird of that unfortunate species died in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914), and the only buffalo most people see are on well-worn nickels. But even so, never in U.S. history has game been as...