#510 - The Last Animal: A Dialogue with Kyle Harper

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Kyle Harper about humans and extinction. They talk about humans contextualized with other animals, humans as apex predators, human history in context, mass extinctions and the 6th extinction. They also discuss LUCA, human species, animal domestication, deforestation, whaling, future of the planet, and many more topics.

Kyle Harper is the G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. His previous works include Plagues upon the Earth and The Fate of Rome and he is the author of the latest book, The Last Animal: Human history and the fate of life on earth.

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