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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

The MeatEater Podcast

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Native Peoples in North America - The Great Disease Dye-Off

The Pleistocene Extinctions removed all the grazing competition, Buffalo become the only major grazers left on the Great Plains. In order to keep your population at that level, you have to actively try to control population. And so one of the arguments in this chapter is that because native people understood the relationship between their population size and their use of nature, they deliberately kept their populations small.

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