Posted on 01/31/2006 8:22:33 AM PST by Calpernia
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Most scholars now agree that huntersmore than climate change or a mystery epidemicare what doomed the mammoths. Whatever the cause, by 11,000 years ago the king of the Pleistocene was a goner.
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If a group of devotees has its way, this shaggy ice-age mascotand a host of other bygone megafauna besidesmay yet walk again.
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The scientists, in other words, had managed to assemble half the woolly-mammoth genome; they claimed that in three years they could finish the job. That would put scientists within striking distance of an even greater feat: repopulating the earth with creatures that vanished ages ago.
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Most scholars now agree that huntersmore than climate change or a mystery epidemicare what doomed the mammoths.I'd quibble with that and say that there are no scholars who agree with that, just a few loudmouthed demagogues.
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Maybe not, but how about....
Mmmmm, mammoth burgers & steaks. Hey, a new source for ivory. I will need to buy a few more freezers just to hold all the meat from one.
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>>>Ever since Congress passed the Wilderness Act in 1964, defining wilderness has not been easy. What often looks wild or "pristine" has probably been altered by humans over centuries. And in recent years scientists have tried to coax nature back to some concept of an original state by bringing back long-gone species, such as wolves, the American elm, or prairie plants.<<<
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Woolly mammoth genome comes to life (Jurassic Park, here we come)
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Political buzz word alert, rewilding...
Next step: shoot them.
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