New Study Reveals the Real Impact of Early Humans on Animal Extinction
“Evidence that these earlier humans caused appreciable losses is mostly poor to nonexistent, which suggests that it was deleterious cultural practices—overhunting, excessive resource exploitation—of modern humans that were behind later insular extinctions. Prior to migration of modern Homo sapiens across the planet, other populations and species of hominins lived on a number of the world’s islands,” says Ross MacPhee, senior curator at the American Museum of Natural History’s Department of Mammalogy, and a co-author on the study. “In fact, there were only two islands we recorde...
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