Re: Modern Neanderthals?

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ykhan@achilles.net (Yousuf Khan) wrote:

> We place too much importance on our own perceived skills as killers,
> that we think that we were singlehandedly responsible for extinctions
> of many other species.

It is generally thought that the Clovis people, travelling from the
Canadian plains to central Mexico around 12000BP, were very effective
hunters leaving a trail of extinctions behind them. (Clive Gamble,
'Timewalkers', Penguin Books 1993, pages 208-209)

It is also said that the Pacific islands, including New Zealand,
"witnessed catastrophic extinction rates among their local fauna due
to human colonisation" (ibid pages 233-234).

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danny

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