People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals

nat.au.dk People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals

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.

This is related to the:

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.

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