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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 |
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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.