NATS 1840 Lecture 5: Lecture 1
22 Feb 2019
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Nats 1840 lecture 1 anthropomorphic extinctions in the late quarternary. There are many ways to measure human impact on the environment, the reduction of green space, the amount of pollution, the extinction of species. Species extinction is a rough measure at best, without details it is not possible to know if an extinction is due to our activities or something else environmental. In the case of recent extinctions, it is often easier to find the proximate causes of extinction, the removal of habitat, the introduction of predators, etc. In the case of ancient extinctions, there can only be assumptions based on evidence. Still, the evidence for extinction, even if the causes are uncertain, is quite strong. Martin advances a novel thesis to explain why so many large mammals became extinct in the last 50 000 years (so called near time , also known as the.
