On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:02:14 EST "S.B. Feldman, MD" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>
> The conclusion by Holdaway and Jacomb is considered controversial
> among experts because of its speed and because some doubt that hunting
> alone is ever sufficient to wipe out whole species.
>
> ``There are extinctions that have followed hard on the heels of
> human  arrivals, but as to it being caused by hunting alone, that
doesn't
> seem  plausible,'' said Ross D.E. MacPhee, a zoologist at the American
> Museum of Natural History. ``There must have been cofactors, such as
> disease.''
>

Ardeith writes:
Seems I recall a bird called the Passenger Pidgeon that
had co-existed with the Native American tribes for
centuries......but did not long survive the arrival of
Europeans on these shores.........
And wasn't there something called the Carolina
Parakeet?

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