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The history of the world according to rats - Max G. Levy

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Today, rats are often regarded as the most successful invasive species in the world. The most common species of rat scurried onto the scene roughly 1 to 3 million years ago in Asia. There, they craftily survived Earth’s most recent ice age, and eventually, began living around and with humans— though often at the mercy of human priorities. Max G. Levy traces the entangled history of human and rat.

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Meet The Creators

Director
Denys Spolitak
Educator
Max G. Levy
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Sound Designer
Weston Fonger
Composer
Jarrett Farkas
Produced by
Gerta Xhelo, Abdallah Ewis
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Editorial Producer
Shannon Odell
Fact-Checker
Charles Wallace

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