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371 | Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth

October 19, 2026

Sean Carroll (0:00)

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. You may have heard that species of life forms here on Earth are dying out at an unusually high rate. Sometimes this is called the sixth extinction or the Holocene extinction or the Anthropocene extinction. Just compared to the rate at…

And we know why, it's because of us, because of human beings changing the planets in different ways. But the precise extent to which what's going on right now is best described as a new massive extinction event is slightly controversial, and long time Mindscape listeners will not be surprised to learn the situation…

Kyle Harper (3:53)

Hi Sean, I'm a big fan of the show. Thanks for having me.

Sean Carroll (3:56)

Oh, very good. We love those kinds of guests. I know that we're talking about, there's very big issues that came up in your new book about humanity and extinctions and the biosphere and things like that. But I'm a little bit curious about the trajectory. You started writing books about ancient Rome. That's what…

Then somehow, now you're talking about biodiversity and things like that. Tell us a little bit about how you get from A to B.

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