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RE: The Holocene Mass Extinction Part 4: The Great Chain of Being
I love that story about Jefferson and the mammoth, which I included in a piece about another big bit of culturally induced blindness from the same time period, the idea that Native Americans -- being lower on the Great Chain -- couldn't possibly have built any of the giant monuments scattered across the western continents.
http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=randall_hayes&article=017
That's awesome! And I'd never heard of The Black List before- might need to give it a shot! :)