How Early Hunters Drove Elephant Relatives to Extinction
An AI-Assisted Study Reveals the Role of Human Evolution in the Decline of Proboscideans Over the Past 1.8 Million Years
The extinction of numerous elephant-like species over the past 2 million years has been significantly influenced by human hunting activities, according to a recent AI-assisted analysis1 of fossil records. The study highlights that the extinction rate of these animals increased five-fold with the evolution of early humans around 1.8 million years ago and …
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