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Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« on: April 22, 2018, 01:53:33 pm »
Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
By Meghan Bartels On 4/19/18 at 2:06 PM


Humans can be challenging neighbors: We build cities, we turn forests into fields and we enjoy eating a host of other species. Scientists know these actions take a toll on the animals that live around us.

A new paper published in the journal Science has gone to drastic new lengths to quantify exactly what that toll is. It finds a stark correlation between the arrival of humans or our lost relatives like Neanderthals on a new continent and the subsequent extinction of larger mammals that leaves behind smaller survivors. In short, mammals on average have been shrinking for more than 100,000 years, and it's all humans' fault.

http://www.newsweek.com/mammals-have-been-shrinking-thousands-years-and-its-all-humans-fault-893330?piano_t=1
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Re: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2018, 01:54:21 pm »
For the most part I'll bet it has been Donald Trump's fault. *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2018, 07:51:47 pm »
Total baloney, foisted on an ignorant people, by ignorant people.
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Re: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2018, 07:58:45 pm »
Translation: 'Psssst! We gotta get rid of all the humans!' </ecozealot>

« Last Edit: April 22, 2018, 07:59:22 pm by Free Vulcan »
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Re: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2018, 07:59:00 pm »
Adapt, or die!  Humans are part of the planet, deal with it!
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Re: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2018, 08:14:59 pm »
Ah, humans are mammals...
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Re: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years and It's All Humans' Fault
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2018, 08:26:34 pm »
The rest of the story:

--Humans survived, prospered, got bigger.
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