Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 01/14/2009 1:56:00 PM PST by em2vn
Acting as super-predators, humans are forcing changes to body size and reproductive abilities in some species 300 percent faster than would occur naturally, a new study finds.
Hunting and fishing by individual sportsmen as well as large-scale commercial fishing are also outpacing other human influences, such as pollution, in effects on the animal kingdom.
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Mammoths died, people cried.
look what we did to cats.
Some people have way too much time on their hands!
Science by idiots.
I thought cats just walked into our “caves” and domesticated us?
Maybe that's how it happened...
And the moral of the story ... humans do as you will — nature and the animal kingdom will adapt.
SnakeDoc
They forgot to mention that no one ate meat or fish until the 20th century. :::sarc tag in case its needed:::
ML/NJ
Huh? So does this mean we are some kind of unnatural, robotic beings perhaps?
These people have a strange sense of man's place, not only on Earth but in the food chain.
The leftists are laying the groundwork to ban hunting. So then we have no reason to own guns and have no practice shooting tyrants.
This is utterly stupid. It says man shouldn’t exist.
The other way to look at this is that hunters and fisherman are doing animals a favor by forcing them to evolve more quickly. In other words, the animals are become super-fish, deer, etc.
Early humans stopped the Ice Ages by inducing global warming using slash and burn agricultural techniques. All that carbon burning saved the world from being a frozen ice palace. It resulted in giga-acres of new habitat. Hooray!
To others it might say that man is the most lethal of all creatures and causes more death, including his own species,than any other.
I agree this is crap, but I do own a ranch and, as part of my game-mangement, have certain bucks on a no-shoot list, in order to improve my stock. (I trust my hunters not to shoot, but my hunters are people I know and who generally work for me.)
Some go as far as capturing and high fencing certain bucks during hunting season.
It’s basic game managment.
You assume evolution is direction (i.e., towards “super”).
Not necessarily so. (Think Shetland ponies — Shetland Islands, where only the small survive.)
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Super-Hunter!
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