Posted AT 4:27 AM EDT on 31/07/07
Were bison one of globalization's first victims?
CALGARY — The near-extinction of the plains bison in the United States has long been blamed on the advent of the railways, native overhunting and a government policy of slaughter designed to address the "Indian problem."
But a Canadian researcher has discovered that globalization was the real culprit for the decimation of the U.S. bison herd in the 19th century.
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