Pleistocene Avifaunas and the Overkill Hypothesis
- 18 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 195 (4279) , 691-693
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.195.4279.691
Abstract
At the end of the North American Pleistocene, birds and mammals suffered comparable degrees of generic extinction. Both the magnitude and pattern of avian extinction are incompatible with the hypothesis that humans played a major role in causing the demise of numerous North American mammalian genera at this time.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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