In a similar vein, Jared Diamond has observed: "Personally, I can't fathom why Australia's giants should have survived innumerable droughts in their tens of millions of years of Australian history, and then have chosen to drop dead almost simultaneously {at least on a time scale of millions of years} precisely and just coincidentally when the first humans arrived."
( Elizabeth Kolbert )
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