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New Nature paper uses genetic evidence to argue that pre-1492 population of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico was **much** lower than previously thought—fewer than 80,000 people.Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03053-2NY Times
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I see this stuff from time to time, and I always wonder why these guys think that indigenous people had some sort of exclusive monopoly on horrible violence. It’s just
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Fascinating debate in Nature Sustainability about a seemingly arcane question: how much burning of the landscape did indigenous Americans do before Europeans arrived? Relevance: if they did a lot, today’s
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There’s a small academic argument about whether Robt. Malthus’s dire predictions were defeated by science and technology. True, S&T greatly lifted farm productivity, but that’s not the fundamental flaw in
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