Saturday, August 6, 2011

Any evidence that invasive diseases played a role in the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions of America?

Diseases migrating from the Old World to the New World, possibly on the backs of invading humans and other animal species, representing an 'initial wave' of microbial-related extinctions (to be followed by subsequent waves which wrought destruction of a similar magnitude on human populations in America)...

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