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In 1908 near Folsom New Mexico a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison By examining flint points embedded in the bones archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12450 years ago This discovery vastly expanded Americas known human history but also revealed the longstanding danger Homo sapiens presented to the continents evolutionary richness

Distinguished scholar Dan Floress ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the wild new world of North Americaa place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia Africa and Europe With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths horses wolves and bison Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before

In thrilling narrative style informed by genomic science evolutionary biology and environmental history Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication studied Americas animals and moved heaven and earth to rescue them Eons in scope and continental in scale Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animalhuman story in America