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

oleh: Mathew Stewart, W. Christopher Carleton, Huw S. Groucutt

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01

Deskripsi

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.