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Island extinctions are a distinct phenomenon. People never managed to drive anything in Eurasia extinct. Even African and Indian elephants still exist. The Nort
by angiosperm 3y ago
Island extinctions are a distinct phenomenon. People never managed to drive anything in Eurasia extinct. Even African and Indian elephants still exist. The North American extinction pulse clearly matches the platinum-dust spike from the comet strike.
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoWhat about the woolly mammoth, steppe mammoth, straight-tusked elephant, European hippopotamuses, aurochs, steppe bison, cave lion, cave bear, cave hyena, Homotherium, Irish elk, giant polar bears, woolly rhinoceros, Merck's rhinoceros, narrow-nosed rhinoceros, and Elasmotherium to name a few?
- angiosperm 3y agoHow many of those do we have plausible evidence were done in by people? Of course Irish elk are island fauna. Lions persisted in Europe into the Classical period, finally done in by Roman industrial-scale collection (not comparable to hunter-gatherer hunting).