[extropy-chat] Origin of wars (was origin of faith) (2)
Keith Henson
hkhenson at rogers.com
Sun Nov 19 05:42:37 UTC 2006
At 05:23 PM 11/18/2006 -0800, Lee wrote:
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>He then explains that, for example, once unleashed from
>the old world, human numbers greatly multiplied in the new
>world. (He doesn't mention that this was because of European
>agro-technology that supported more people per unit area.)
No, although that also happened, he is talking about 10 or 12 thousand
years ago when the ancestors of the American Indians cross into North America.
The best that can determine (carbon dates) is that it took less than 1000
years for the North and South American ecosystems to be filled up tight
with people. And, of course, all the big game gone.
Keith
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