Although humans have contributed largely to the evolution of the world in a positive way, they have also deteriorated the world specifically through the abundance of fossil fuels used. These fossil fuels have contributed to many downfalls regarding our planet, one principal problem being global warming. In this essay, I will endeavor to obtain a potential resolution to the continuous debate that is ‘Did humans cause megafauna to become extinct?’.
The first possible way humans may have beed responsible for the overall extinction of megafauna is through overkill, this is the hypothesis that humans drove many species of megafauna to extinction through excessive hunting. The following and more natural process that megafauna may have became extinct is through climate change this is the hypothesis that substantial fluctuations in the climate caused megafauna to xxx
The last way megafauna may have become extinct is through disease. xxx
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All of these listed megafauna and many more became extinct throughout the Quaternary extinction event. Mammoths or Mammuthus proboscideans are possibly the most famous mammal to become extinct during the Pleistocene. Mammoths proboscideans lived approximately 5 million years ago until 4,500 years ago. Although there is no direct answer to why these mammals became extinct, there are various factors that could and will have contributed to the overall extinction of mammoths. Hyperdisease, overkill, and climate change are all very large factors that may influence us to a possible resolution to the end of end-Pleistocene extinction. The Pleistocene, frequently attributed to as the ice age, is the epoch that began about 2,588,000 million years ago and persisted until approximately 11,700 years ago. Throughout the continuance of the Pleistocene period,