Pleistocene Megafauna and Overkill Hypothesis - Ruins 138

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, Carlton is off galivanting across Europe and you know what that means; chaos. Connor and David talk about megafauna, the overkill hypothesis and get real weird.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Literature Recommendations

• Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions by Jack M. Broughton & Elic M. Weitzel (2018) in Nature Communications

• Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America’s Ice Age megafauna by David J. Meltzer (2020) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

• Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals by J. Tyler Faith and Todd A. Surovell (2009) in in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

• Test of Martin’s overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna Todd A. Surovell, Spencer R. Pelton, Richard Anderson-Sprecher, and Adam D. Myers (2015) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

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