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Hmmm.....
It is interesting to note that about 12,500 years ago, sea-level rose by several hundred feet as rainfall increased dramatically, often as monsoons ( IE 40 days and 40 nights of constant rain).
Around this same time period, 60% of large land animals became extinct.
In fact, the only large Pleistocene Mega-Fauna that survived, in anything like Pleistocene numbers, are the ones we domesticated through selective breeding (IE took two by two).
see:
Budiansky, Stephen,
The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication.
New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1992.
Explains the role of neoteny (domestication) in the Neolithic Revolution
and how it was as much a biological as a technological evolution.
Ray Audette
NeanderThin
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