Table of Contents
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Cenozoic Era
PPT Slide
American Pleistocene Extinctions
Early Sites in the Americas
Clovis People’s spear and arrow points, scrapers
Human Predation
New World Blitzkrieg?
But . . . Predator-Prey Theory?
Mammoth Hunter . . . or Fish Catcher?
Human-Mediated Extinction
Human Rats
Gradual Extinctions?
Climate-Change Hypothesis
Evidence Against
Interaction of Hunting and Climate Change
Keystone
The Chicken and the Egg
Large mammals selected against:
Pleistocene Survivors - I
Pleistocene Survivors - II
% Extinctions of Terrestrial Genera ( ᡤ kg adult)
What About Africa?
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