The Late-Pleistocene extinction of megafauna compared with the growth of human population

2013/09/11 by Nielsen, Ron W
#FOS: Biological sciences #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.3002

Abstract

Time-dependent distribution of the global extinction of megafauna is compared with the growth of human population. There is no correlation between the two processes. Furthermore, the size of human population and its growth rate were far too small to have any significant impact on the environment and on the life of megafauna.

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