> Ok, but, above, you only list the _preys_. Where are the
> big predators?
> There ain't no big predators in North America except
> Man. Even if the West didn't invade America
> (imagine that the Black Death had wiped out 99%
> of Afro-Eurasia) and the natives hadn't acquired
> gunpowder, how could the prey population survive Man?
> Sooner or later, intelligent hunting would turn the prey
> population upside down, with an un-natural selection.
> Self-uplift is impossible Maru
> Alberto Monteiro
i don't know, alberto, but i suspect that man has wiped out more predators and
prey, in fact more plant and animal species on this planet, than any other
species of life, by far. the only events that i can think of that can compete
with man's genocidal nature are acts of nature and asteroid impacts.
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