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		huytersd on April 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haunting photos of the bison extermination in 19th... They did regular brutality. Attack another tribe, kill like 5% of them, rape etc. everyone did that. No one really wiped out entire species.

throwaway74432 on April 12, 2024 [–]

>No one really wiped out entire species.

Overkill Hypothesis[1]

1. https://people.wou.edu/~vanstem/391.W12/Overkill%20Hypoth.pd...

huytersd on April 12, 2024 | [–]

This isn’t a hypothesis. This is a well documented event.

throwaway74432 on April 12, 2024 | | [–]

The evidence of the overkill hypothesis stands against your lack of evidence that it never happened before.

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