• LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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    19 hours ago

    You’re missing a \.

    There have been many extinction events in Earth’s history. There have been five big mass extinction events and several smaller ones.

    There have now been many studies focused on the question of whether humans were a key driver of the QME. Many suggest that the answer is yes. Climatic changes might have driven an initial decline in large mammal populations — small population crashes — but human pressures are likely to have thwarted their recovery. Large mammals survived previous periods of climatic change, but the arrival of humans put pressure on already-depleted populations.