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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa New Zealand seems to be a good example of this. Also, fascinating how there were no hu
by moritzwarhier 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
New Zealand seems to be a good example of this.
Also, fascinating how there were no humans at all there before the 13th century.
- makapuf 3y agoI wonder how long it takes to lead to this effect, and if humains have been isolated long enough at one point in history to have had a local effect.
- mkl 3y agoWell, humans are pretty big already, and big animals on islands tend to get smaller [0], so the opposite may have happened. One theory of the origin of homo floresiensis [1] is that they were the result of insular dwarfism on homo erectus. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis