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overkill hypothesis  

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  • As human populations expanded their geographic range across the globe, they brought with them an unparalleled ability to transform native landscapes and directly or indirectly devastate populations of native or indigenous peoples species. According to Paul Martin and other palaeoecologists, this ‘overkill’ may have been responsible for the waves of extinction of native faunas (especially the megafauna) that coincided with the arrival of environmentally significant humans in new lands. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environmental Change; overkill hypothesis]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Z99Q25QG-L

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