Re:Mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern...
by nyolfen on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:31PM
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a few thousand years is not that long; humans have been in africa for millions of years and australia for at least 45k. interestingly the dingo looks very similar to many other breeds of feral dogs across the world, from the carolina dog on the american atlantic coast to the jungle-dwelling new guinea singing dog. its form is something like the primordial state of c. familiaris, with probable climactic adaptations.
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Re:Mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern...
by thaumasiotes on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:59PM
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Well, humans are only considered to date back about 200,000 years, so "millions of years" is stretching it.
Hominids have been in Africa for millions of years, but the Bantu Expansion is just a few thousand years old. It is younger than recorded history -- we have Egyptian records of the peoples to their south, with whom they traded; those people are extinct today. The Bantus reached South Africa at about the same time Europeans did! They colonized it much more successfully, though, largely wiping out the Khoisan who were there before.