The extinction of mammoths
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was likely caused by a combination of factors:
Climate change: As the Pleistocene gave way to the Holocene, the climate became warmer and wetter, reducing the mammoth’s habitats.
Human impact: Fire, development of tools, and hunting by humans likely played a role.
Genetic changes: The mammoth population gradually lost harmful genetic mutations, but some other random event sealed their fate.
“The extinction of mammoths
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was likely caused by a combination of factors:
Climate change: As the Pleistocene gave way to the Holocene, the climate became warmer and wetter, reducing the mammoth’s habitats.
Human impact: Fire, development of tools, and hunting by humans likely played a role.
Genetic changes: The mammoth population gradually lost harmful genetic mutations, but some other random event sealed their fate.”
And the fourth, that random event, was most likely a meteor strike around the same time.
That is a mistake we always make. We try to find “that one cause” of a historical event when it might have actually been a combination of variables that happened at the same time.
NatGeo like the Smithsonian are a bunch of hucksters.
NatGeo wrong on all counts, as usual.