Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-11-01
Books mentioned on Selects: How Extinction Works
Scientists believe that 99% of the estimated 50 billion species that have ever lived on Earth have disappeared through extinction. This is a natural process typically, but it can also be cataclysmic and it's becoming clear we are amid a massive one.
Chuck Bryant discussed The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert and others. Josh Clark recommended 1491 by Charles C. Mann and others and 1493 by Charles C. Mann and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert is a deeply researched examination of the ongoing mass extinction event driven by human activity and its catastrophic implications for global biodiversity.
Discussed“we picked up on um there's a woman named uh Elizabeth um Colber or Co Colbear depending on if you watch the Col Bear Report. Yeah. Um and she is basically a leading expert as far as journalists go on extinction. She wrote a book called The Sixth Extinction.”
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1491
1491 by Charles C.
Recommended“if you read 1493 or 1491, I can't remember which one it is, but both are excellent books by Charles C. Man, he talks about the passenger pigeon”
Where to get it
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1493
1493 by Charles C.
Recommended“if you read 1493 or 1491, I can't remember which one it is, but both are excellent books by Charles C. Man, he talks about the passenger pigeon”
Where to get it
