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Re:Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before E... by nostromo on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:14PM (#10692333)
At least according to Jared Diamond, the primary killer (95% or so) of the natives was communicable disease.

The first smallpox epidemic alone killed about half of the Incas.

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