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Eugenia Gold / So Goes the Dodo

Geology, not stupidity, led to dodo’s extinction. They got trapped on an island with new invasive predators: humans.

Click above to listen to part 2 of Geology is Destiny, featuring Eugenia Gold, instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University, discussing how geology spelled doom for the dodo, which were probably not as dumb as once believed.

Geology is Destiny:
Part 1: Walter Alvarez / Rocks Remember
Part 2: Eugenia Gold / So Goes the Dodo
Part 3: David Grinspoon / Enter the Anthropocene

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