ghostsofevolution | Mammoths, Overkill, and a Deep-Time Perspective on Pleistocene Extinctions (with Connie Barlow) @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded February 2010 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Connie Barlow summarizes the world-wide paleontological evidence in support of the Overkill Theory of "extinction of the massive", proposed by Paul S. Martin. In this "Coming Home to North America" program delivered as a keynote presentation in 2004 in Lexington Kentucky (EarthSpirit Rising Conference), Barlow advocates a deep-time perspective for today's work in conservation biology and biodiversity protection of endangered species. Barlow has written a great deal on this topic; for online viewing of published articles google "Goodbye Eternal Frontier" and also "Rewilding for Evolution." The "Pleistocene Rewilding" movement grounds its advocacy in this deep-time and overkill perspective, as well.

More information on overkill theory, rewilding, Paul S Martin, and access to the chart Barlow used in this video are available on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schultz_Martin

See also Barlow's essay in a 2002 issue of Wild Earth magazine, "Goodbye Eternal Frontier": thegreatstory.org/EternalFrontier.pdf