{"id":1191,"date":"2015-04-20T07:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2015-04-20T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:25:20","slug":"elephants-aurochs-and-gazelles-hunted-500000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/elephants-aurochs-and-gazelles-hunted-500000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants, aurochs and gazelles hunted 500,000 years ago."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Israel-Revadim-Tools.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Israel-Revadim-Tools-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Israel Revadim-Tools\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Israel-Revadim-Tools-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Israel-Revadim-Tools.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/archaeology\/science-stone-tools-butchered-elephant-bones-revadim-israel-02620.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The now extinct animals that were hunted at the Ravidim site in Israel came from a culture archaeologists call Acheulian, and are famous for their hand axes&#8211;a prehistoric Swiss Army knife that could perform many tasks. \u00a0Would have loved to have seen a Straight-tusk elephant, but species change over time. \u00a0To adapt to environmental stresses like climate change, species hybridize, pulling the genes they need to survive from other species. This may be happening today with bison and cattle. \u00a0As the climate warms, bison seem to be selecting for certain cattle genes. \u00a0There is some evidence to suggest this natural selection favors smaller bison, which probably would be adaptive in a warmer world. \u00a0Smaller bison would consume less resources and have a greater chance of survival when the grasses they need to survive get scarce. \u00a0Such a diminution of bison size occurred at the end of Pleistocene Ice Age, as well. \u00a0Of course, we won&#8217;t know if the cattle genes in bison helped them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-22-15.30.37.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-22-15.30.37-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-22 15.30.37\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-22-15.30.37-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-06-22-15.30.37-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>adapt to a changing climate for around 10,000 years. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/archaeology\/science-stone-tools-butchered-elephant-bones-revadim-israel-02620.html The now extinct animals that were hunted at the Ravidim site in Israel came from a culture archaeologists call Acheulian, and are famous for their hand axes&#8211;a prehistoric Swiss Army knife that could perform many tasks. \u00a0Would have loved to have seen a Straight-tusk elephant, but species change over time. \u00a0To adapt to environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,25,230,231,228,66,94,96,229,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}