Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change - Nature Communications
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Extinction of megafauna is a defining trend of the last 50,000 years. Here, the authors use genomic data to infer population histories of 139 extant megafauna, suggesting that their population decline is better explained by Homo sapiens expansion than by climate change.
  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Honestly this just makes sense. The bigger the animal, the more efficient the calorie gain from hunting activity, which makes them a preferable target. Also, they tend to reproduce slower.