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Did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction? Or give them lethal
disease
Mammoth Kill
SciAm 2/2001
by Kate Wong
Mexico City--Although it's hard to imagine in this age of urban
sprawl and automobiles, North America once belonged to mammoths,
camels, ground sloths as large as
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He has determined, using a computer simulation, that even a very modest
amount of hunting would have wiped these animals out.
If this were true, the mega fauna of Africa would have been exterminated
long ago. Mankind has been in Africa longer than it has been anywhere.
A
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Nessie wrote:
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He has determined, using a computer simulation, that even a very modest
amount of hunting would have wiped these animals out.
If this were true, the mega fauna of Africa would have been exterminated
long ago. Mankind has been in Africa longer
-Caveat Lector-
If this were true, the mega fauna of Africa would have been
exterminated long ago. Mankind has been in Africa longer than it has
been anywhere.
You're only HALF right. The second sentence is theoretical speculation.
Until more data come in, it's the only theoretical
