Paul Schultz Martin

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American geoscientist (1928-2010)

United States AcademicsLived 1928 to 2010 · aged 82

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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.

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Paul Martin at Rampart Cave, home of the Shasta ground sloth in Grand Canyon, ca. 1975

Martin's depiction of asynchronous megafaunal extinctions as evidence of newly arriving weaponized humans as the primary cause.[13]

Paul Martin's "overkill hypothesis" prevails over the climate hypothesis when the timing of megafaunal extinctions in different locales is considered - especially when paired with time of first arrival by humans.[14][15]

Paul Schultz Martin, 2008, holding a dungball of the extinct Shasta Ground Sloth, with whom Martin claimed to have "a totem relationship."[39]

Native fruits of North America with anachronistic features.[49]

In 2014 researchers in the U.S. Forest Service suggested three types of assisted migration.[52] Florida torreya was the tree listed for the type called assisted species migration.

Paul Martin's advocacy in support of assisted migration of an endangered tree, Torreya taxifolia, led to citizens planting its seeds northward.

Paul S. Martin, at home in Tucson, Arizona (2004).

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Guggenheim Fellowship

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