On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:57:41 -0600, Paleogal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I don't believe this for a second.  There's always someone trying to make
>homo sapiens look like mindless, murderous, apes in the order of things.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Philip Thrift" <[log in to unmask]>
>>http://salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/07/megafauna/index.html
>>( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871137895/104-4640197-1447125 }

Paleohumans didn't know what they were doing - they just hunted and ate.
Evolution is mindless.

But, as one reviewer noted, at least following his 'solution' we
could be eating megafauna steaks again!


 Flannery seeks to "revolutionize our rangelands management" by proposing
 a megafauna to recreate the more balanced ecology of 13,000 years ago:
 elephant (to replace the mammoth and mastodon), bison, llama, tapir,
 jaguar, camel and Chacoan peccary - all of which could be harvested for
 mutual human/megafauna/ecology benefit.


Philip Thrift
http://www.geocities.com/paleofitness