Megafauna extinction
RIS ID
97247
Abstract
In the Spotlight report "New Information from Ancient Genomes" by Sandra J. Ackerman (September-October), I question the statement on page 327 that Eske Willerslev's data "constitute a strong case that climate change-not hunting-caused the last great extinction." Others argue that the extinction of the megafauna caused changes in the vegetation, not the other way around.
Publication Details
Gillespie, R. (2015). Megafauna extinction. American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society, 103 (1), 3-3.