Word: extinctionism
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The two studies support the 'overkill' or 'blitzkrieg' theory of extinction, developed in the 1970s by Paul Martin at the University of Arizona. Martin blamed the extinctions on the arrival of humans, and likened their passage down the continent to a "bloody wave," resembling the passage of German tanks through...
In the first of the two new studies, John Alroy of the University of California, Santa Barbara, used a computer simulation to determine whether overkilling by human was a conceivable cause of the wave of extinction, which occurred about 1200 years after humans are believed to have arrived in North...
It also speaks volumes about where these two archetypes of American industry stand. Bridgestone may be willing to send the Firestone brand on the road to extinction. Yet Ford is in the midst of an ambitious strategy to reinvent itself as the automobile industry's most socially and consumer-conscious...
It also speaks volumes about where these two archetypes of American industry stand. Bridgestone may be willing to send the Firestone brand on the road to extinction. Yet Ford is in the midst of an ambitious strategy to reinvent itself as the automobile industry's most socially and consumer-conscious...
It's a working template of American experience and, on the whole, useful. The young man obeys Horace Greeley and goes West; in California, he runs out of America. It is the culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery - a process whose impact...