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Posted: 28 Aug 2023

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Ground Sloth / Mylodon darwinii

Ground Sloth / Mylodon darwinii
RECONSTRUCTION OF A GIANT TREE SLOTH (MEGATHERIUM) AT THE NATURAL ISTORY MUSEUM IN LONDON

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No one drew more fire for the unpopular idea that indigenous populations were responsible for the extinctions than the late Martin, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schultz_Martin who first proposed his “overkill” theory in the 1960s. Many postmodern social scientists and anthropologists were repelled by the idea that First Peoples, already dehumanized and decimated by colonialism, could be responsible for staggered, global waves of extinction. . . .

The last ground sloths might have vanished from mainland North America 10,000 years ago, but in 2005 Martin’s former student University of Florida paleontologist David Steadmanlk found fossils of a species that lingered in Hispaniola and Cuba for an additional 5,000 years. When the Wet Indies were first settled by humans, these ground sloths of the Caribbean quickly disappeared as well. ~ Page 228/230

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