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One of the speakers (Brody) discusses reading this book and being impressed by how Paul Martin tracks the spread of humans around the globe and lists extinctions that occurred at the same time. The speaker describes it as presenting a very compelling argument about human-caused extinctions, comparing it to watching a convincing YouTube video.

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Dan Flores explicitly recommends this book about Pleistocene extinctions: 'Paul Martin...the book that if people want to read about this, I think I would encourage them to read, is called The Twilight of the Mammoths.' Martin was the major advocate of the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis.

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Dan Flores discusses Paul Martin's book while explaining the 'Blitzkrieg hypothesis' about Pleistocene extinctions in North America. Martin was a paleobiologist at the University of Arizona who argued that human hunters caused rapid extinctions of megafauna.