My Operawhat causes the extinction?
Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:55:51 AM
The number of large mammals that became extinct in North America at the end of the late Pleistocene, about 10,500 years ago, is staggering. Among some 35 different kinds of animals that disappeared from the fossil record were mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, giant ground sloths, and bears.
A leading proponent of the overkill theory, Paul S. Martin (Paul S. Martin is Emeritus Professor of Geosciences. He is a major contributor to the model of prehistoric overkill as the overriding explanation for prehistoric extinctions of large animals in radiocarbon time (last 50,000 years)), believes the Ice Age megafauna disappeared not because they lost their food supply but because of human hunting.
The extinction of animals as a result of human colonization in island settings has been well documented and the causes widely agreed on.
A leading proponent of the overkill theory, Paul S. Martin (Paul S. Martin is Emeritus Professor of Geosciences. He is a major contributor to the model of prehistoric overkill as the overriding explanation for prehistoric extinctions of large animals in radiocarbon time (last 50,000 years)), believes the Ice Age megafauna disappeared not because they lost their food supply but because of human hunting.
The extinction of animals as a result of human colonization in island settings has been well documented and the causes widely agreed on.
