New paper providing more support that humans contributed to the Pleistocene-Holocene extinctions

[Faelrin]

Paper appears to be open access.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/article/latequaternary-megafauna-extinctions-patterns-causes-ecological-consequences-and-implications-for-ecosystem-management-in-the-anthropocene/E885D8C5C90424254C1C75A61DE9D087

[GojiraGuy1954]

Good to see that Captain Obvious is pursuing a career in paleontological science

[stargatedalek]

This has seemed rather inherent, but it's nice to have a formal paper talking about it. Especially to counter some of the green washing narrative that goes around and often tries to deny this stuff.

[EmperorDinobot]

*in Count Dooku voice*


I have been expecting this.

[Turkeysaurus]

[Halichoeres]

This has seemed rather inherent, but it's nice to have a formal paper talking about it. Especially to counter some of the green washing narrative that goes around and often tries to deny this stuff.

A lot of 'noble savage' mythologizing, as though Europeans are the only ones capable of obliterating whole species. Sure, the earliest Americans didn't have firearms, but they had thousands of years and a fauna naive to ape-shaped predators.