Giant, Now Sunken Islands Could Explain Ancient Migration in the Americas - Science Alert

A new study advances land bridges over floating "on matted vegetation running down rivers" for how animals spread to what are now the Antilles Islands. David Nield reports how a team modeled "40 million years of tectonic plate movement" to achieve this conclusion. Yet another fresh review suggests that for islands, "when it comes to causing extinctions, early humans were likely not the jerks that we are today," per Laura Geggel in Hobbits and Other Early Humans Not 'Destructive Agents' of Extinction, Scientists Find. And it's Homo sapiens' culture that's the key killer in this story. Mari Lilleslatten sheds more light on this process in Archaeologists Have Discovered the Earliest Anthropogenic Landscape on Earth northeast of Lake Malawi. These findings "can help us take a broader view of the relationship between culture and nature." But old racist views of human migrations and cultural development still prosper, per Jason Colavito's Rightwing Podcaster Attacks My Mound Builder Book as "Vile, "Bolshevist". This in the wake of former Senator Rick Santorum's ridiculous recent remarks on the "birthing" of this nation. (WM)

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