Daily Maverick

Part 1: The Sixth Extinction and the Anthropocene’s Pleistocene origins

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...
insider.si.edu

Pleistocene extinctions the search for a cause editors, P.S. Martin and H.E. Wright, Jr

A bestiary for Pleistocene biologists / Paul S. Martin and John E. Guilday -- Introduction / Edward S. Deevey Jr. -- Prehistoric overkill / Paul S. Martin -- Differential extinction during ...
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Part 2: Human-wildlife conflict, the ‘overkill’ hypothesis and megafaunal extinctions

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...
insider.si.edu

American megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene / edited by Gary Haynes

Sudden deaths : the chronology of terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction / Stuart Fiedel -- Estimates of Clovis-era megafaunal populations and their extinction risks / Gary Haynes -- Paleobiology ...
Ars Technica

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...
Opinion
AllAfricaOpinion

South Africa: Part 1 - The Sixth Extinction and the Anthropocene's Pleistocene Origins

This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity's impact on the environment - and the unfolding 'Sixth ...