Fifty millennia of catastrophic extinctions after human contact

2005/05/01 by David A. Burney, D BURNEY, Tim Flannery +1 · 10 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.04.022

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