Re: Who Killed the Australopithecines?

Vincent DeLuca (vincent1@ix.netcom.com)
19 Apr 1995 02:09:56 GMT

In <bardD78z0H.EEw@netcom.com> bard@netcom.com (BARD) writes:
>
>In article <4eraleEYs9AF075yn@fox.nstn.ns.ca>,
>Dave Oldridge <doldridg@fox.nstn.ns.ca> wrote:
>>In article <bardD6ns30.E5J@netcom.com>, bard@netcom.com (BARD) wrote:
>>> In article <4qLWleEYsXU1075yn@fox.nstn.ns.ca>,
>>> Dave Oldridge <doldridg@fox.nstn.ns.ca> wrote:
>>> >In article <1995Mar30.191251.9700@roper.uwyo.edu>,
>>> >rtravsky@UWYO.EDU (Rich Travsky) wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> bard@netcom.com (BARD) writes:
>>> >> >
>>> The point here is that genocide seems the only logical
explanation
>>> to the extinction of A. species by H. habilis, H. habilis by H.
>>> erectus, H. erectus by H. sapiens.
>>
>>I doubt it. And there's no real reason to assume it. Sure, some
>>individuals of earlier species were undoubtedly killed by members of
>>later species. That process continues to this day, but we rarely
kill
>>chimps and gorillas out of any sense of revulsion or any desire to
>>commit genocide. More likely, the habitats just continued to change,
>>giving the newer hominids an ever greater advantage, while the
pongids
>>continued to thrive in THEIR habitats.
>>
>>And it happened over far too long a period for it to be genocide.
>>
>> --
>> Dave Oldridge
>> doldridg@fox.nstn.ns.ca
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> Man has been quite successful in the near-extermination of
> various ethnic groups. The need to do this on a more
> primitive level is what I believed happened to A.species.
> Mind you, H. habilis did not think of A.species as merely
> an ape, but rather, a cunning creature too intelligent to
> have around.
>
> We are repulsed by rats, yet find squirrels cute.
>
> Why...?
>
>
> Also, genocide is not defined by any time constraints I'm aware
of.
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> BARD
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>

In the study of Mitochondrial DNA it has been shown
(Wilson,Caan) that there has been no passage of genes from H. Erectus
>to H.Sapiens. One can agree with Bard that a sort of genocide took
>place on H.Erectus. One can also assume that this may be the case of
>the Australopithecines.
Vincent1.