Worldwide late-Quaternary population declines in extant megafauna are due to Homo sapiens rather than climate
J. Bergman, R. O. Pedersen, E. J. Lundgren, R. T. Lemoine, S. Monsarrat, M. H. Schierup, J.-C. Svenning
The paper analyzes genome data to show that Homo sapiens, not climate, caused population declines in megafauna over the last 100,000 years.
bioRxiv · Aug 13, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology