Comment by cyberax
4 days ago
These animals survived multiple climate changes before that. Nope, it was humans.
We're the reason the North American continent has _no_ large predators except bears.
4 days ago
These animals survived multiple climate changes before that. Nope, it was humans.
We're the reason the North American continent has _no_ large predators except bears.
Again, it’s probably both.
We humans nearly bought it during the same period; we bottlenecked at ~1,000 individuals for millennia. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
The other hominins didn’t make it.
By your argument, if a species survives multiple climate changes it can never go extinct /except/ by human intervention.
Not true.
Sure. A couple of species will go extinct.
But somehow ALL the megafauna in Australia, Asia, and North America went extinct at approximately the same time humans arrived.