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Re:The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of lar... by Schmools on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:04PM (#26495494)
There's actually some evidence (though also some debate) that early human hunting led to the extinction of megafauna in North America in the late Pleistocene age. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5693/70.full
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Re:The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of lar... by sgt101 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:57AM (#26501398)
But these were anatomically modern people - the North American Megafauna were around 50k years ago... There is no evolutionary pressure there!
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Re:The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of lar... by Schmools on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:19PM (#26509339)
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted, an interesting paper nonetheless. I thought I had also read a paper discussing protohuman hunting practices earlier in the year but I couldn't find it here. Certainly anatomically modern early humans had much more of an impact on our environment then we often give them credit for.
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