Megafauna Extinction Driven Mainly By Climate Change, Not Humans

Samples of ancient DNA from fossils of megafauna like mammoths reveal that the extinction of large land mammals correlates more closely with warming climates than the arrival of humans. The researchers looked at these trends at an unprecedented evolution that allowed them to uncover strong evidence to the contrary of the prevailing theory that humans caused the demise of megafauna.
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