It must have swarmed with great monsters: 7 million years of extinctions and ecological change in Africa
By:
Tyler Faith
Date:
Tue, 08/07/2025 - 18:00
Branch:
Western Cape
Please click on the following link to view the talk recording on our YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/tIeoTt1wyx0
Tyler Faith is Chief Curator at the Natural History Museum of Utah and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. Faith is a paleoecologist whose research broadly addresses the relationships between climate change, terrestrial ecosystems, and human-environment interactions, with an emphasis on the large mammals of sub-Saharan Africa. He has dedicated much of his career to understanding how climate change and human impacts contributed to African mammal extinctions over the past 100,000 years and deeper in time.
https://youtu.be/tIeoTt1wyx0
Tyler Faith is Chief Curator at the Natural History Museum of Utah and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. Faith is a paleoecologist whose research broadly addresses the relationships between climate change, terrestrial ecosystems, and human-environment interactions, with an emphasis on the large mammals of sub-Saharan Africa. He has dedicated much of his career to understanding how climate change and human impacts contributed to African mammal extinctions over the past 100,000 years and deeper in time.