{"id":263547,"date":"2010-02-01T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=20381"},"modified":"2010-02-01T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:26:28","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten-future-implications-of-human-killed-off-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/263547","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten: Future Implications of Human Killed-Off Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GVmammothsSPL.jpg\" alt=\"GVmammothsSPL\" height=\"188\" width=\"300\" \/>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15384108&#38;fsrc=rss\">Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Between 50,000 and 5,000 years ago roughly half of the earth\u2019s larger mammals (species that were sheep-sized or bigger) went extinct. The distribution of these extinctions in time and space suggests strongly that humans were responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Large mammals in Africa, which had evolved alongside humans for millions of years, were for the most part spared. The species which died out elsewhere \u2014 178 of them, possibly more \u2014 tended to do so at around the time that they first encountered modern humans coming forth out of Africa with pointy sticks, good throwing arms and large appetites.<\/p>\n<p>Ecologists have shown that wiping out big animals is surprisingly easy, since big animals reproduce slowly, which means that a small increase in the rate at which predators pick them off can have a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Economist: Between 50,000 and 5,000 years ago roughly half of the earth\u2019s larger mammals (species that were sheep-sized or bigger) went extinct. The distribution of these extinctions in time and space suggests strongly that humans were responsible. Large mammals in Africa, which had evolved alongside humans for millions of years, were for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}