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- From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: The Human Niche
- Message-ID: <15397@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 17:57:50 GMT
- References: <1466601757@igc.apc.org> <1992Sep9.235045.17478@nuchat.sccsi.com> <1992Sep10.082545.29839@kth.se> <1893@grivel.une.edu.au>
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- In article <1893@grivel.une.edu.au> JOHN HUNTER,
- jhunter5@metz.une.edu.au writes:
- > While in most cases native peoples appear to have blended
- in well
- >with their environments, I don't believe this has always been the
- case.
-
- I believe I've heard it suggested that the disappearance of most large
- mammals in the western hemisphere coincided with the arrival of humans
- there. The speculation, of course, is that the "Indians" wiped out the
- Wooly Mammoth, the saber-toothed tiger, etc.
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- William E. Williams,
- bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's City, MD 20686
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