The idea that early humans caused megafaunal extinctions through over hunting in every new environment they entered is one of those load-bearing ideas behind the misanthropic “humans are a destructive virus on the natural world” scheme of ecofascists, but the actual evidence for it has always been circumstantial at best and getting worse over time.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/27/science/australia-first-peoples-fossils
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