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Re:Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millenni... by Swizec on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:15AM (#42509474)
10,000 years is quite a lot in human time. The pyramids were about 5,000 years ago and look how much has happened since.

By comparison, we killed off the Dodo in, what, less than 10 years?

I think it’s fair to talk about 10,000 years as a long time. Sure it’s barely a blink in geologic time, but we’re talking about the human perspective here.

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Re:Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millenni... by Aloisius on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @01:44PM (#42510366)
The Dodo lived on a tiny island and it was driven extinct largely by invasive species brought by humans.

It took humans quite a bit longer to drive say, the tarpan, to extinction.

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Re:Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millenni... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @08:55PM (#42512605)
Anatomically modern humans first descended around 200k ago. 10k is short.
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