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Mario Petrinovich:
> I am claiming that Apiths (actually bipeds, from
> Ouranopith to Homo) are the cause of deforestation. IOW, they burned
> trees.
> Trees aren't savanna features. They caused savanna by burning trees in
> rain
> forest. Burning was good for spreading of pyrophytes, which caused more
> fire.

Oops. This is wrong. Probably this stage wasn't. Grass came as a
consequence of burning, but pyrophytes probably weren't involved in burning,
very much. Burning by bipeds just simply produced grass. -- Mario


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