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Really enjoyed being a guest on the History of Being Human podcast.

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HBH 63: Overkill! The Ongoing End of the Megafauna with Dr. Rhys Lemoine - The History of Being Human
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August 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reposted
🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
#Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity
Aim The late-Quaternary extinctions, which affected primarily large mammals, are strongly connected to the migration of modern humans out of sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia (the Palaeotropics),...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM