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It’s both. Human populations were growing rapidly and simultaneously the period from 50000-10000 was the end of the last ice age So the going theory is that t
by AndrewKemendo 3y ago
It’s both.
Human populations were growing rapidly and simultaneously the period from 50000-10000 was the end of the last ice age
So the going theory is that the original areas of climate for which mega fauna were most populous, was effectively reduced increasingly over time as a result of warming, which humans were able to capitalize on to the point where we kind of “finished the job.”
This is effectively, how we see extinction patterns around the globe. Whereas humans aren’t necessarily the primary or only cause, but they do make a big enough exogenous impact to cause a collapse.
- candiddevmike 3y agoHow big of a population are we talking here
- myshpa 3y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline "What’s most shocking is how few humans were responsible for this large-scale destruction of wildlife. There were likely fewer than 5 million people in the world. Around half the population of London today."
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoWell the estimates are kind of all over the place but basically growing from ~1M - 15M over the course of 40000 years, before the Neolithic explosion