气候变化而非人类活动导致大型动物灭绝
一项对现有证据的重要审查得出结论：澳大利亚曾经漫游的大多数巨型动物在人类到来之前已经消失了。
这项研究挑战了人类在提出的约在40,000到50,000年前的“灭绝时间窗口”内主要对巨型动物的消亡负责的说法，并将矛头指向了气候变化。
由新南威尔士大学领导的国际团队，包括昆士兰大学、新英格兰大学和华盛顿大学的研究人员进行了这项研究。该研究发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上。
新南威尔士大学的主要作者史蒂芬·罗伊副教授表示：“关于人类推动灭绝的解释是基于 increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly increasingly
