# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-schultz-martin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:56.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-schultz-martin"
name: "Paul Schultz Martin"
slug: "paul-schultz-martin"
description: "Paul Schultz Martin was an American geoscientist at the University of Arizona who developed the theory that the Pleistocene extinction of large mammals worldwide was caused by overhunting by humans. Martin's work bridged the fields of ecology, anthropology, geosciences, and paleontology."
tagline: "American geoscientist (1928-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Schultz_Martin%2C_2008%2C_holding_a_dungball_of_the_extinct_Shasta_Ground_Sloth.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-08-22"
deathDate: "2010-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.278726666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Paul S. Martin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump