Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America

There are a number of competing explanations for the late Pleistocene extinction of many North American megafauna species. Here, the authors apply a Bayesian regression approach that finds greater concordance between megafaunal declines and climate change than with human population growth.

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Main Authors: Mathew Stewart, W. Christopher Carleton, Huw S. Groucutt
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c7fde14940f7411798bf5b66d012f3b9
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