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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-10-13T11:08:12'
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title: You've heard a lot that
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You've heard a lot that man hunted big game, such as the mammoth, to extinction. Or that a sudden catastrophic event killed them off. Maybe it was niether. Perhaps man or the scavengers that followed [introduced viruses that did the job](http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/10/12/mammoth.killer.ap/).