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what megafauna did humans kill off, which you're referring to? there are rumblings that the ~10k year ago megafauna die off was far too rapid to have been done
by blueprint 5y ago
what megafauna did humans kill off, which you're referring to?
there are rumblings that the ~10k year ago megafauna die off was far too rapid to have been done by relatively unsophisticated humans and is likely to have been caused by a comet fragment impact or similar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
- slater 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna#Timing_and_possible_causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna#Timing_and_possible_... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- meristohm 5y agoUnsophisticated humans? We haven’t changed much in the last 50,000 years, from what I remember from Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. My feeling is that our collective ancestors were creative, intellectual, observant, and all the other positive descriptions we might aspire to, along with being brutal killers fighting to survive. In the span of a couple hundred years we’ve engineered global climate change—-that’s impressive and disheartening, and adopting more of the leave-less-trace existence of our ancestors might be prudent.
- kuhewa 5y ago> We haven’t changed much in the last 50,000 years Genetically, not too much. In terms of population density and technology, we absolutely have changed, and both are relevant to our ability to clear a continent of dozens of species of animals at a rapid rate.
- blueprint 5y agotechnologically unsophisticated. no guns. hard (or impossible) for them to have wiped out a continent of megafauna in the timespans that had previously been suggested.