May
06
/ 2021
It has been told and retold and accepted as an unproven truth that early human beings arrived on uninhabited islands and forced other species to make way for them, eventually driving them to extinction. In fact, human migration has always been linked with a converse effect on existing bio-diversity and natural ecosystems and human impact on animal extinction has always been “assumed.” A new study, however, sheds light on unscientific claims of the early human impact on animal extinction. The study is published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and led by Julien Louys from Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution. Professor Louys said that there was little to no evidence that the
