The discovery of America: the first American may have swept the western hemisphere and decimated its fauna within 1000 years. Science 179
America was the largest landmass undiscovered by hominids before the time of Homo sapiens. The Paleolithic pioneers that crossed the Bering Bridge out of Asia took a giant step. They found a productive and unexploited ecosystem of over 107 square miles (2.6 X 107 square kilometers). As Bordes has sa...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.602.1762 http://www.esf.edu/efb/lomolino/courses/MammalDiversity/Disc1/All1.pdf |
| Summary: | America was the largest landmass undiscovered by hominids before the time of Homo sapiens. The Paleolithic pioneers that crossed the Bering Bridge out of Asia took a giant step. They found a productive and unexploited ecosystem of over 107 square miles (2.6 X 107 square kilometers). As Bordes has said (1), "There can be no repetition of this until man lands on a [habitable] planet belonging to another star." At some time toward the end of the last ice age, big game hunters in Siberia approached the Arctic Circle, moved |
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