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MORLAN, R. E. "Pleistocene Extinction Reexamined: Quaternary Extinctions." Science 228, no. 4701 (1985): 870–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.228.4701.870.

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Pires, Mathias M., Paul L. Koch, Richard A. Fariña, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, Sérgio F. dos Reis, and Paulo R. Guimarães. "Pleistocene megafaunal interaction networks became more vulnerable after human arrival." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1814 (2015): 20151367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1367.

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The end of the Pleistocene was marked by the extinction of almost all large land mammals worldwide except in Africa. Although the debate on Pleistocene extinctions has focused on the roles of climate change and humans, the impact of perturbations depends on properties of ecological communities, such as species composition and the organization of ecological interactions. Here, we combined palaeoecological and ecological data, food-web models and community stability analysis to investigate if differences between Pleistocene and modern mammalian assemblages help us understand why the megafauna di

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Faith, J. Tyler, and James F. O'Connell. "Revisiting the late Pleistocene mammal extinction record at Tight Entrance Cave, southwestern Australia." Quaternary Research 76, no. 3 (2011): 397–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2011.08.001.

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AbstractTight Entrance Cave (TEC) in southwestern Australia provides a Pleistocene sequence documenting the extinction of 14 large mammal species. This record has been interpreted as indicating that extinctions did not occur during or before the penultimate glacial maximum (PGM) and that humans played a primary role in the extinctions. However, it remains possible that the majority of extinct megafauna persisted no later than the PGM. The TEC extinctions correspond with vegetation change, a cooling/drying trend, increased biomass burning, and increasingly unstable small mammal communities. The

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Louys, Julien, Todd J. Braje, Chun-Hsiang Chang, et al. "No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 20 (2021): e2023005118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023005118.

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The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna extinction is anthropogenic overhunting. A common assumption based on late Holocene records is that humans always negatively impact insular biotas, which requires an extrapolation of recent human behavior and technology into the archaeological past. Hominins have been on islands since at least the early Pleistocene and Homo sapiens for at least 50 thousand y (ka). Over such lengthy intervals it is scarcely surprising that signifi

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Beck, Michael W. "On discerning the cause of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions." Paleobiology 22, no. 1 (1996): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300016043.

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I examine the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions by testing the only extinction model with strong a priori predictions, the blitzkrieg model (Martin 1973; Mosimann and Martin 1975). I first test an assumption of the blitzkrieg and other extinction models that the megafaunal extinctions occurred in the terminal Wisconsin (12-10 Ka). This assumption has been disputed by Grayson (1989, 1991), but I find that both a reanalysis of Grayson's data and an analysis of new reliable data support a terminal Wisconsin extinction.The blitzkrieg model predicts that the ranges of megafauna in North Ameri

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Grayson, Donald K. "Deciphering North American Pleistocene Extinctions." Journal of Anthropological Research 63, no. 2 (2007): 185–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/jar.0521004.0063.205.

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Hofreiter, Michael. "Pleistocene Extinctions: Haunting the Survivors." Current Biology 17, no. 15 (2007): R609—R611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.031.

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Budd, Ann F., Thomas A. Stemann, and Kenneth G. Johnson. "Late Cenozoic turnover in the Caribbean reef coral fauna." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200006031.

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Study of the stratigraphic ranges of reef coral species in scattered sequences (Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Florida) suggests that a major episode of faunal turnover occurred in the Caribbean region between early Pliocene and mid Pleistocene time. In a data set composed of all reef corals except the families Mussidae and Oculinidae and the genera Cladocora and Madracis, approximately 90% of the Mio-Pliocene fauna, composed of as many as 65–70 species, became extinct during this time interval. Ten of 27 genera became extinct. Despite the high numbers of extinctions, th

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Andermann, Tobias, Søren Faurby, Samuel T. Turvey, Alexandre Antonelli, and Daniele Silvestro. "The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity." Science Advances 6, no. 36 (2020): eabb2313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb2313.

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To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species extinctions from the Late Pleistocene onward remains contentious. Here, we apply Bayesian models to the fossil record to estimate how mammalian extinction rates have changed over the past 126,000 years, inferring specific times of rate increases. We specifically test the hypothesis of human-caused extinctions by using posterior predictive methods. We find that human population size is able to predict past extinctions wi

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Russell, Sharman Apt. "The Pleistocene Extinctions: A Bedtime Story." Missouri Review 18, no. 2 (1995): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.1995.0025.

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