But not mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, camels, horses, saber-ttothed
tigers, etc. The hypothesis implicates human predation, not human
habitat alteration (ie., the fragmentation of habitat). Climatic changes
likely fragmented the habitat which is an alternative explanation for the
massive wave of terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions.

Gene Hunn.

On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Dale Goble wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Eugene Hunn wrote:
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> > Islands are special cases, ......
> <snip, snip>
> > The extrapolation to continental mass extinctions is not
> > well justified.
>
>
> I had thought that the argument was: increasing habitat fragmentation
> operated as islands so that the island model was relevant to many
> continental species.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> dale Goble
> moscow
>