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| Tango01 | 22 Jun 2018 10:11 p.m. PST |
…Chinese Noblewoman. "A certain Chinese noblewoman—potentially Lady Xia, grandmother to the first emperor of China—had a menagerie buried with her in her tomb: a leopard, a crane, an asiatic black bear, a lynx, and, most notably, a gibbon. That gibbon was part of newly identified, now-extinct genus and species, researchers reported Thursday. The existence of a previously unknown gibbon that lived just 2,200 years ago suggests that throughout history, humans may have caused even more ape extinctions than we thought. "We assumed all of the [gibbon] species alive today were the ones alive in the past," said James Hansford, a zoologist at the Zoological Society of London who studied the gibbon skeleton. "But the fact that we've discovered this new genus indicates there was at least one or maybe more gibbons that we had no idea existed. They're far more vulnerable to human impact than we thought before."…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 22 Jun 2018 10:48 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 23 Jun 2018 11:56 a.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Jun 2018 2:37 p.m. PST |
People have this silly idea that before the current era, all people lived in harmony with nature. |
| Cacique Caribe | 23 Jun 2018 7:13 p.m. PST |
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