Ep. 871: Are Birds Actually Dinosaurs?

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Guest Steve Brusatte discussed this as his first book in a pop science trilogy, mentioning it was a New York Times bestseller and that he tells stories of going to China and seeing feathered dinosaur fossils in it.

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Guest Steve Brusatte mentioned this as his second book telling the story of mammals, noting he read a lot about human evolution and mammoth-human interactions while writing it.

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Guest Steve Brusatte's newest book, released on the day of the podcast recording, covering bird evolution from dinosaur origins to the present, including chapters on modern bird intelligence and cognition research.

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Brusatte mentioned this book by his friend Henry Gee, a senior editor at Nature, saying he read it before publication and it discusses how human populations could crash due to limited genetic diversity.