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#1542 The Quest for the Wooly Mammoth

Listening to America

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The Origins of Megafauna

I don't know enough about Canadian indigenous people but I know a fair amount about indigenous people in the United States and it doesn't sound like they're life ways to go into a mass overkill. There's a whole set of restraining mechanisms in almost every indigenous culture that would have made that a near impossibility. They didn't kill everything in their sights in Eurasia during the ice age so why would they all of a sudden switch in there? It happened when they crossed the very land bridge into North America. So you grew up in Edmonton didn't you? Yes it did yes. I've never been I've been to Calgary I had a friend from Edmonton she's now a Supreme Court Justice

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