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'Super-Predator' Humans Force Evolution in Animals
Foxnews ^
| 01-14-09
| Robert Britt
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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; breeding; catastrophism; eatmorechicken; godsgravesglyphs; kingdom; lamarckism; mammoth; mammoths; mankind; mastodon; mastodons; megafauna; oldearthspeculation; peta; predator; secondamendment; selectionpressure; sleeper; sleepers; vegan
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Same s^%t, new flavor.
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posted on
01/14/2009 1:56:01 PM PST
by
em2vn
To: em2vn
Mammoths died, people cried.
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posted on
01/14/2009 1:56:55 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: em2vn
look what we did to cats.
To: em2vn
Some people have way too much time on their hands!
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:02:05 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: em2vn
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:02:44 PM PST
by
ZULU
( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
To: the invisib1e hand
I thought cats just walked into our “caves” and domesticated us?
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:03:21 PM PST
by
Weaponier
(FREE TEXAS!)
To: Weaponier
I thought cats just walked into our caves and domesticated us? Maybe that's how it happened...
To: em2vn
And the moral of the story ... humans do as you will — nature and the animal kingdom will adapt.
SnakeDoc
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:16:20 PM PST
by
SnakeDoctor
("You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." -- David Crockett)
To: em2vn
They forgot to mention that no one ate meat or fish until the 20th century. :::sarc tag in case its needed:::
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:17:26 PM PST
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: em2vn
But I thought the "super predator humans" wiped out the mammoths and only the smaller species survived.
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:18:52 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: 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.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.
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:33:17 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Barack Obama is a Disney character. His wife - a product of Marvel Comics.)
To: em2vn
The leftists are laying the groundwork to ban hunting. So then we have no reason to own guns and have no practice shooting tyrants.
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:34:29 PM PST
by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: em2vn
This is utterly stupid. It says man shouldn’t exist.
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:49:03 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: em2vn
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.
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:56:03 PM PST
by
Lou Budvis
("I did not have sex with that woman..." = "I did not have contact with the governor..")
To: em2vn
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!
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posted on
01/14/2009 2:59:36 PM PST
by
bvw
To: Sacajaweau
This is utterly stupid. It says man shouldnt exist. 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.
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posted on
01/14/2009 3:04:05 PM PST
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: em2vn
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.
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posted on
01/14/2009 3:15:13 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
To: Lou Budvis
You assume evolution is direction (i.e., towards “super”).
Not necessarily so. (Think Shetland ponies — Shetland Islands, where only the small survive.)
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posted on
01/14/2009 3:16:26 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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posted on
08/21/2015 9:15:26 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: JoeProBono
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08/21/2015 9:16:28 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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