| | Keats' telescope: August 2005 |
 | | Finally, (are we to Kevin Bacon yet?) a paper to come out in PNAS uses fossil evidence from Cuba and Hispaniola to suggest that North American megafauna extinctions at the end of the Quatenary period are more closely timed with the arrival of humans than with the climate changes of the ice age. |
| | Instead, the closely spaced extinctions in North and South America, and the much delayed island extinctions, are more consistent with humans being the change agent. |
| | In contrast to their reputation as "smash and grab" raiders, Vikings colonized islands in the North Atlantic islands (for example, the Shetlands) with both men and women, and it can be seen in the DNA of their descendants. |
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