The Randall Carlson
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What Really Drove the Late Pleistocene Extinctions
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0:47Now PlayingBy the nineteenth century most plausible explanations for the Late Pleistocene extinctions had already been proposed.
Today only two remain seriously considered: human activity or climate change. Epidemic disease is improbable, unable to cross such vast taxonomic and geographic boundaries. Classic cosmic impacts fail as well, since the extinctions were not globally synchronous.
The pattern of losses still challenges simple explanations and invites a deeper look at the forces shaping Earth’s past.
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