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Offline sam

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Early humans wiped out Australia's giants
« on: January 24, 2010, 18:19 »
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Humans, not climate change, caused the mass extinction of Australia's giant animals, such as huge kangaroos, tens of thousands of years ago.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100123/full/news.2010.30.html
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Re: Early humans wiped out Australia's giants
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2010, 18:21 »
We don't seem to learn from history, do we.
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Re: Early humans wiped out Australia's giants
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2010, 18:24 »
Nope - not even when it only just happened.
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Re: Early humans wiped out Australia's giants
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2010, 18:28 »
We wouldn't be in Afghanistan if we had learnt, for example...
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Re: Early humans wiped out Australia's giants
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2010, 18:34 »
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