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Anthony D. Barnosky is an American paleoecologist and paleontologist whose research focuses on Quaternary mammals, past climate change, and mass extinctions. He has studied the North American fossil record to compare current biodiversity loss with previous extinction events and has written about whe...
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Prominent conservation paleobiologist linking fossils, climate change, and extinction; influential research and public scholarship.
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Paul S. Martin (1928–2010) was an American geoscientist associated with the University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory. He is best known for developing the overkill hypothesis, which proposed that rapid human hunting following late Pleistocene colonization of the Americas was a primary driver of mega...
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Influential architect of the overkill hypothesis; landmark interdisciplinary impact despite persistent debate over extinction causation.
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