[Castlebar]

seems to me the most important question would be: how does one ascertain the frequency of such catastrophes?

Wrong.

The most important question is, how much harder did this impact Pleistocene women and minorities?

[ahadams2]

LOL - no wonder I never wrote a successful grant request! I guess this means we have to now require the folks digging out the various frozen flora and fauna to keep track of all related gender issues as well? :-)