[lbo-talk] New fact lames the human superpredator theory?

[Chris Doss]

I always thought this idea smelled faintly of human wank, the "we're so awesome and kick so much ass" theory.

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Subject: [lbo-talk] New fact lames the human superpredator theory?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22obtundra.html

  The New York Times
  December 22, 2009

  Observatory

                    DNA Shifts Timeline for Mammoths Exit

  By HENRY FOUNTAIN

  Thousands of years ago in northwestern North America, large animal
  species, among them the woolly mammoth and the horse, became extinct.
  Among the proposed explanations for this is one known as the blitzkrieg
  hypothesis -- that humans entering the region rapidly wiped the animals
  out through overhunting.

  The validity of that explanation, and others, depends in parts on the
  timing of the extinctions. How many thousands of years ago did the
  animals disappear?