
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
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The Fear of the Extinct Dinosaurs
When I was a child, it was still a mystery. And the realization that homo sapiens may be the equivalent of an asteroid must subliminally perhaps play quite an important part in feelings of anxiety and despair," he says. The fact that we now know that the dinosaurs did basically go extinct very, very rapidly, I think must concentrate the mind. Their fate is something that is current, a nagging cause of anxiety for us. It can happen here. So who knows what finds maybe.
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