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Hunting to extinction and/or out-competition from humans for resources is also cited by some sources as a factor.
by yuan43 4y ago
Hunting to extinction and/or out-competition from humans for resources is also cited by some sources as a factor.
- jonny_eh 4y agoIt's a regular coincidence in archaeology that when humans show up, other species tend to go extinct. Then there's debate whether humans caused it or not.
- googlryas 4y agoI understand it is a popular theory, but I just have a hard time believing that humans would be able to hunt horses to extinction in the Americas, without even a small reserve of them remaining and then repopulating. The current estimate is less than 1M people spread out across the Americas around 10k BC...I just don't see how it could happen. It seems like larger climate change may have been the reason humans start going to America, and also leading to the horses demise.