Talk:New World Pleistocene extinctions
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[edit] Should this be a separate Article?
The major Extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene were world-wide in nature (just ask many types of local megafauna in Eurasia). Shouldn't a single article explain this? Nonprof. Frinkus 04:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- This article is already quite long, and the literature for Eurasian Pleistocene extinctions is quite different. The time frame for the extinction events is different between the Eurasian and these Novo Orbo ones. Note the differences between Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean faunal stages for North America versus Calabrian, Sicilian and Tyrrhenian for Europe, and the Okehuan, Putikian and Hawera for New Zealand. --Bejnar 05:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Homo Sapiens were the major factor in Extinctions
It seems to be a common myth that keeps perpetuating that it was climate change (ask the megafauna that survived a few 1000 years after Younger Dryas only to be cleaned up my humans) or a hyperdisease (which to this day leaves no evidence) when scientific evidence clearly shows Homo sapiens were not just a cause, but the cause. Even dwarfing can be triggered by humans (the bigger they are, the easier they are to catch). I have good evidence, such as an example of a clear statement of this fact way back in 1999 by John Alroy, a research biologist with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at Santa Barbara, and I have information from other researchers as well. Nonprof. Frinkus 05:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- While I agree with you that homo sapiens is the most likely major cause of large animal extinctions in North America, the evidence for the cause of the extinction of smaller creatures in North America is less compelling, and the evidence in Europe is very mixed. --Bejnar 05:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
