Talk:Holocene extinction

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This article requires attention for the following reason(s): Article uncritically promotes the "overkill hypothesis", when there are many serious reasons to call that into question. Article has an overreliance on vague, uninformative listicles.

Help

I need help adding more to this article. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Rational Dude (talk) 21:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Can we make this into a page?

It seems ready enough. Rational Dude (talk) 13:59, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

• It still promotes the "humans caused the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna" hypothesis, which has been seriously called into question by recent research. I'll fix that when I have the time. But anyway, it could use a bunch more sources, and the "Tactics to fight the extinction" section is obviously incomplete. Plutocow (talk) 15:11, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I do think that there is verifiable evidence for human causing the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna, but I can understand why it would seem unlikely since it wouldn’t have been the only cause, as well as some megafauna surviving humans and continuing into the present day.

And as for the tactics, I’ll try to expand it, but I didn’t know what to put there at first. Rational Dude (talk) 21:29, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Question

How is the overkill scenario not valid? There is evidence to suggest that humans did affect megafauna in the areas they entered, as these animals existed in previous ice ages for hundreds of thousands of years. Presumably, humans wiped them out when they arrived. Rational Dude (talk) 00:41, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Amphibian extinction not mentioned?

Even though most of it is caused by a fungus, humans were no help either. SEaffäreranalysator (talk) 14:57, 23 June 2024 (UTC)