Re: On the importance of sticks.

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In article <3lf3dm$aa0@jupiter.wichitaks.hmpd.com>,
Jim Foley <jimf@vangelis.FtCollins.NCR.com> wrote:
>In article <bardD67G55.D72@netcom.com>, BARD <bard@netcom.com> wrote:
>> Can you guys catch me up on what's been discussed regarding
>> what became of every proto-hominid; why, all are now extinct?
>>
>> Did Homo Sapiens have some hand in it?
>
>Possibly. Not necessarily through violence, we might have just been
>better at surviving in the same ecological niche.

A minor correction to the above: Homo sapiens hadn't yet evolved. It
would have been Homo erectus for the late robust australopithecines, and
Homo habilis was probably around when some of the earlier species
snuffed it.

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Jim Foley                             Symbios Logic, Fort Collins

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