Good points -- probably had something to do with systematic destruction of those large, dangerous predators. The Romans liked to use bears in their games, and an African species which was a big favorite no longer exists as a consequence. Whoops..
Exactly. Look - as humans our killer app is that we can run long distance while being able to cool. Another is that we can work cooperatively in a group to fend off a larger, faster and more powerful predators by using music. Just look at a Maori Haka as ask yourself whether big cat might view the whole group as a threat larger than any one human.
So, to me, all this thought that Holocene megafauna extinction somehow has a anthropogenic origin is ridiculous. The innovation of farming came about as a result of the extinction event, not human conduct causing the extinction. Thinking that we humans are so powerful chokes off thought directed at examining larger forces.
How much though has been put in academia to increased incidence of solar particle events and solar activity that corresponds to the Megafaunal Extinction? To the fact that there is a C-14 anomaly at the Younger Dryas/Allerod boundary? To the fact that there are increased Beryllium-10 deposition rates while the extinction was taking place?
No, nothing happenng here. It must be that humans hunted the Megafauna to extinction. I am not a scientist, but looking to anthropogenic origin just seems to be bad science and a fetish.
ok - </rant>