That humans had a major role in the extinction of wooly mammoths is likely correct. However this cannot be said for the megafauna in Australia: https://theconv

That humans had a major role in the extinction of wooly mammoths is likely correct. However this cannot be said for the megafauna in Australia: https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-australians-co-existed-with-the-megafauna-for-at-least-17-000-years-70589 https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-australians-co-existe... Our propensity to blame past extinctions on humans often has more to do with projecting our own civilisation's tendancies at destruction than some immutable fact about human nature. Mammoths also tended to live in areas of relatively low biodiversity such as the artic and tundra anyway so this does not contradict my point that historically humans have caused increases in the biodiversity in their local ecologies. There is substantial evidence that the Amazon rainforest for instance was at least in part cultivated: https://www.voanews.com/a/amazon-rainforest-ancient-people-cultivated-trees/3747940.html https://www.voanews.com/a/amazon-rainforest-ancient-people-c...