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Status Replies posted by Mckeedee123
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Just started re-reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" for a class in college, and I realized one of the worse things the book implies about human prehistory: It's likely that the Giant Ground Sloth would have been DOMESTICATED by Amerindians if it hadn't been killed off by the Clovis hunters they descended from. This is one of history's greatest tragedies.
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Eh. Jared Diamond disagrees. Megafaunal extinctions in North America and elsewhere correlate so well with Clovis settlement that he thinks there's probably some relationship.
But yeah. It's likely that taming megafauna like Ground Sloths could've made Amerindians more resistant to disease and lead to faster development. North America lacked good crops and animals to domesticate, which held it back considerably.
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Just started re-reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" for a class in college, and I realized one of the worse things the book implies about human prehistory: It's likely that the Giant Ground Sloth would have been DOMESTICATED by Amerindians if it hadn't been killed off by the Clovis hunters they descended from. This is one of history's greatest tragedies.
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Suddenly Sadness.