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. Anything to be politically correct in a PETA regime.... especially North Americans, and more especially the white savages.... I'm sick of it. Oliva ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Thrift" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: "a megafauna barbecue" > These giant animals shared the planet with humans less than 20,000 years > ago. And it's humans with their mammoth-steak barbecues that likely wiped > them out, according to Tim Flannery, a mammalogist and paleontologist who > is the director of the South Australian Museum. He is the author, most > recently, of "The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America > and Its Peoples," > > http://salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/07/megafauna/index.html > > ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871137895/104-4640197-1447125 } > > Philip Thrift > http://www.geocities.com/paleofitness