16 Mar 2025

Could humans really wipe out life on Earth?

From Sunday Morning, 11:40 am on 16 March 2025

Dr David Jablonski, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago says it’d be difficult for humans to wipe out life on Earth entirely. He studies patterns of evolution and the way life rebounds after mass extinctions. 

Dr Jablonski joins Jim to talk about what might be left if Earth becomes seemingly ‘uninhabitable’. 

Earth sits in dried cracked mud before metropolis

Earth sits in dried cracked mud. Photo: Bruce Rolff

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