agk99 \$m[1]:GWD6-Q5 to Q7: (生物類)
According to a theory advanced
by researcher Paul Martin, the wave
of species extinctions that occurred
in North America about 11,000 years
(5) ago, at the end of the Pleistocene era,
can be directly attributed to the arrival
of humans, i.e., the Paleoindians, who
were ancestors of modern Native
Americans. (PM先生認為動物的消滅都是人類的祖先幹的) However, anthropologist
(10) Shepard Krech points out that large
animal species vanished even in areas
where there is no evidence to demon-
strate that Paleoindians hunted them. (SK先生則認為沒有證據支持是人幹的)
Nor were extinctions confined to large
(15) animals: small animals, plants, and
insects disappeared, presumably not
all through human consumption. (同時小動物的滅絕也不能記在人類頭上)Krech
also contradicts Martin’s exclusion of
climatic change as an explanation by
(20) asserting that widespread climatic
change did indeed occur at the end of
the Pleistocene. (SK同時認為PM沒有提到天氣的變化相當有問題)Still, Krech attributes
secondary if not primary responsibility
for the extinctions to the Paleoindians,
(25) arguing that humans have produced
local extinctions elsewhere. But,
according to historian Richard White,
even the attribution of secondary
responsibility may not be supported
(30) by the evidence. (RW先生則是認為，即便是SK的看法也缺少證據)
White observes that
Martin’s thesis depends on coinciding
dates for the arrival of humans and the
decline of large animal species, and
Krech, though aware that the dates
(35) are controversial, does not challenge
them; (RW先生認為，PM的看法其實只是巧合)
yet recent archaeological
discoveries are providing evidence
that the date of human arrival was
much earlier than 11,000 years ago. (第四種看法，意味支持「動物的滅絕確實不是人幹的」，也就是同意RW的看法)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
不知道當初agk大大有沒有把這兩個東西（藍色）不小心寫錯嚕！
我的閱讀能力太差嚕...
想知道是同意PM先生的看法還是RW先生的看法？！（最後一句話）
