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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: The Pleistocene Murders - Forrest Bishop, Paleobiologist
Description: A conversation with Forrest Bishop about the Pleistocene Murders - a whodunnit theory that seeks the cause of the megafaunal extinction that rocked the planet during the most recent period of glaciations - from 2.5 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago. While most theories - including a recent paper from Tel Aviv university point the finger at increasing populations of hungry humans, Forrest proposes that this ignores a crucial, global change that occurred over the course of the Pleistocene: a global decrease in carbon dioxide levels. In the Pleistocene Murders, he proposes that falling carbon dioxide levels led to th...