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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.
1 posted on 01/14/2009 1:56:01 PM PST by em2vn
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To: em2vn

Mammoths died, people cried.


2 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.)
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To: em2vn

look what we did to cats.


3 posted on 01/14/2009 1:57:16 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: em2vn

Some people have way too much time on their hands!


4 posted on 01/14/2009 2:02:05 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: em2vn

Science by idiots.


5 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.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I thought cats just walked into our “caves” and domesticated us?


6 posted on 01/14/2009 2:03:21 PM PST by Weaponier (FREE TEXAS!)
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To: Weaponier
I thought cats just walked into our “caves” and domesticated us?

Maybe that's how it happened...

7 posted on 01/14/2009 2:05:42 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: em2vn

And the moral of the story ... humans do as you will — nature and the animal kingdom will adapt.

SnakeDoc


8 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)
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To: em2vn

They forgot to mention that no one ate meat or fish until the 20th century. :::sarc tag in case its needed:::


9 posted on 01/14/2009 2:17:26 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: em2vn
But I thought the "super predator humans" wiped out the mammoths and only the smaller species survived.

ML/NJ

10 posted on 01/14/2009 2:18:52 PM PST by ml/nj
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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.

11 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.)
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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.


12 posted on 01/14/2009 2:34:29 PM PST by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: em2vn

This is utterly stupid. It says man shouldn’t exist.


13 posted on 01/14/2009 2:49:03 PM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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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.


14 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..")
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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!


15 posted on 01/14/2009 2:59:36 PM PST by bvw
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To: Sacajaweau
This is utterly stupid. It says man shouldn’t 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.

16 posted on 01/14/2009 3:04:05 PM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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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.


17 posted on 01/14/2009 3:15:13 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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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.)


18 posted on 01/14/2009 3:16:26 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


19 posted on 08/21/2015 9:15:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: JoeProBono
Super-Hunter!

20 posted on 08/21/2015 9:16:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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