Those Pesky Humans...
...were at it 10,000 years ago...but it was mostly climate:
Humans and Climate Contributed to Extinctions of Large Ice Age Mammals, New Study Finds
Related: Let's have a moment of silence for all these creatures that used to walk on pretty much the same ground that I do but went extinct, not that long ago. (There's a great little map at the link showing the extent and retreat of the ice sheets during the last ice age bringing us into the contemporary inter-glacial period. Damn we're lucky!)
Humans and Climate Contributed to Extinctions of Large Ice Age Mammals, New Study Finds
"The genetic history of six large herbivores -- the woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild horse, reindeer, bison, and musk ox -- has shown that both climate change and humans were responsible for the extinction or near extinction of large mammal populations within the last 10,000 years."How Mammoths Lost the Extinction Lottery
"Woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and other large animals driven to extinction since the last ice age each succumbed to a different lethal mix of circumstances. This conclusion — the result of a huge analysis of fossils, climate records and DNA — hints that it could be more difficult than thought to identify the species at greatest risk of disappearing today."Climate Change Caused Extinction of Big Ice Age Mammals, Scientist Says
"A renewed assault is being made on the popular idea that the mass extinction of large mammals in North America around 10,500 years ago was the result of human hunting.I wonder if a segment of the ancient human populations blamed their fellow humans? C'est la Vie. But it just goes to show that human ingenuity and adaptability can get us out of some pretty tight spots - like a changing climate, for instance.
The overkill hypothesis was first put forward more than a century ago and has been widely accepted for the past 30 years. But it does not square with the known facts and has become more a faith-based credo than good science, said Donald Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington."
Related: Let's have a moment of silence for all these creatures that used to walk on pretty much the same ground that I do but went extinct, not that long ago. (There's a great little map at the link showing the extent and retreat of the ice sheets during the last ice age bringing us into the contemporary inter-glacial period. Damn we're lucky!)
Labels: AGW scam, climate change, evolution, human history, paleontology, pre-history
posted by Louise at 11:54 am
2 Comments:
I recently heard an interview on CBC with a scientist who concluded that humans were a large part of these extinctions 10,000 years ago. I don't buy any of that talk, there weren't enough of us around to wipe out several entire species. its just the left again, they just have a hate on for humanity. Its self loathing.
Agreed. And how long does it take for a small group of people to eat a mammoth? They wouldn't be out there killing mammoths with utter abandon. Even if they dried or smoked a lot of the meat, Which they would likely have to, a single mammoth could sustain a small group of humans for a long, long time.
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