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There's actually some evidence (though also some debate) that early human hunting led to the extinction of megafauna in North America in the late Pleistocene ag
by Schmools 6y ago
There's actually some evidence (though also some debate) that early human hunting led to the extinction of megafauna in North America in the late Pleistocene age. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5693/70.full https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5693/70.full
- sgt101 6y agoBut these were anatomically modern people - the North American Megafauna were around 50k years ago... There is no evolutionary pressure there!
- Schmools 6y agoYeah, I realized that as soon as I posted, an interesting paper nonetheless. I thought I had also read a paper discussing protohuman hunting practices earlier in the year but I couldn't find it here. Certainly anatomically modern early humans had much more of an impact on our environment then we often give them credit for.