For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate cannot be the explanation.

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Overkill Hypothesis

And the article here is related to this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221330542300036X

Highlights

  • Modern humans (Homo sapiens) drive late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions, with no role for climate change.
  • The strong body-size bias of the late-Quaternary extinctions is also linked to modern humans, not climatic change.
  • The late-Quaternary extinctions represent the first planet-wide, human-driven transformation of the environment.