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Sea Cows Extinction

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Both the reading and lecture talk about the extinction of sea cows. The reading claims that there are three reasons about the extinction of sea cows. Howevere the lecture argues that no evidence proves those reasons that are correct. Thus, the lecture holds an opposite view of the reading. Firstly, the professor mentions that sea cows have not been overhunted by people. In other words, sea cows were pretty massive and enomous. But native Sebirian people were not very much. So people could not hunt sea cows and they didn't hunt. So it's unlikely that native peole have been overhunt sea cows. The point is the opposit of the belief in the reading that people caused sea cows deline since they have been overhunt. Therefor, the professor refutes

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