We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and
population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly …

Controversy persists about why so many large‐bodied mammal species went extinct around
the end of the last ice age. Resolving this is important for understanding extinction …

South America lost more genera in the Quaternary megafaunal extinction than any other
continent, but how it fits into the worldwide extinction has been unclear largely due to the …

Earth's most recent major extinction episode, the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction, claimed
two-thirds of mammal genera and one-half of species that weighed> 44 kg between≈ …

During the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene 59 species of South American megafauna
went extinct. Their extinction potentially triggered population declines of large‐seeded tree …

Large anthropogenic 14C datasets are widely used to generate summed probability
distributions (SPDs) as a proxy for past human population levels. However, SPDs are a poor …

The time of appearance of a persistent and demographically-viable hunter-gatherer
population in late Pleistocene southern South America must be determined by evaluating …

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Following Martin [Martin PS (1973) Science 179: 969–974], we propose the hypothesis that
the timing of human arrival to the New World can be assessed by examining the ecological …

The extinction of Pleistocene megafauna and the role played by humans have been
subjects of constant debate in American archeology. Previous evidence from the Pampas …