Professor Sadiah Qureshi: What is it like to go extinct?
Historian Sadiah Qureshi examines how 18th-century fossil discoveries shaped ideas of extinction, and how European empires used the notion of its inevitability to justify genocide, imperialism and ecological destruction. AI summary of the listing
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More than 90% of species that have ever existed on Earth are gone. We tend to view extinction as an unfortunate act of nature, or an inevitable tragedy of the modern world. But what if extinction isn't as natural as we think? Long before we started worrying about a sixth mass extinction, the concept of vanishing wasn’t just an evolutionary theory, it was a political choice. Come and explore how 18th-century fossil…
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