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Title: What are three possible causes of the Late Pleistocene Extinction of large mamma
Post by: barry on Oct 1, 2013
What are three possible causes of the Late Pleistocene Extinction of large mammals?


Title: Re: What are three possible causes of the Late Pleistocene Extinction of large mamma
Post by: barry on Oct 3, 2013
Overkill - large mammals may have been hunted to extinction

Overchill - During the Wisconsin Episode deglaciation, there was a sudden period of climate cooling (Younger Dryas)

Overill - spread of a highly infectious disease from humans that animals of the time had to immunity against.