Did overhunting or a Younger Dryas event drive them all to extinction? I find it hard to believe that cave men wiped out entire species of animals. But wikipedia is telling me otherwise.

>>4998435 (OP)
It was a mixture of both I believe

>>4998435 (OP)
>wikipedia

What were reptiles doing during to the Younger Dryas?

>>4998486
just chilling

>>4998435 (OP)

Cave men with atltatls and other advanced technology.

In any case look at the bigger picture. These animals surivived millions of years of temperature extremes, yet die out when monkeys show up at their doorstep.

Pretty convenient, no?

It was me. I killed them.

>>4998435 (OP)
>humans show up somewhere
>megafauna goes extinct
Any such cases

>>4998435 (OP)
False dichotomy, retard

>>4998435 (OP)
The idea that a younger dryas event killed all the megafauna is a very North American closed mindset. Could a comet or something have struck North America and killed a lot of animals 12 kya? Sure. But that doesn’t explain why the Asian megafauna went extinct 100 kya, or why the Australian megafauna went extinct 50 kya, or why Madagascan megafauna went extinct 1 kya, or why New Zealand’s megafauna went extinct less than 500 years ago. All just happen to coincide with a certain upright monkey arriving

>>4998520
What? I don't see any dichotomy in that post, false or otherwise

>>4998435 (OP)
Humans dont have to hunt them directly to render them extinct. Hunting their main prey and exploiting the flora/territories they rely on is enough to threaten them and when one species goes out the others that rely on it are in a shakier position.

>>4998524
Man arrived in the Americas at least 28-35kya, not 12kya. The decline and loss of the American Megafauna was influenced by humans but humans were not the only factor.

>>4998435 (OP)
I miss these niggas like you wouldn't even believe

>>4998572
>did x or y do this?
>not a dichotomy
A dichotomy is LITERALLY two opposite options

>>4998572
Are you
1. ESL
Or
2. Stupid

This is a dichotomy because it has 2 choices.
It's also a false dichotomy because you could be BOTH ESL AND Stupid

>>4998836
>humans were not the only factor
Didn’t say they were

>>4998836
It wasn’t the only factor but it was probably the main one

>>4998435 (OP)
>I find it hard to believe
luckily what you believe doesn't matter at all

>>4998435 (OP)
At the very least I think the ground sloths, glyptodonts, and mammoths were wiped out by humans. Previous climate shifts were weathered by them just fine, and they lived all across the Americas. Giant short-faced bears and the saber-toothed cats probably went extinct more from competition than direct hunting.

>>4998524
>>4998494
wow. A little sapienphobic much? this sort of rhetoric is why humans are oppressed by orcas