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3 pages in length. Much debate transpires when the subject of the overkill hypothesis is cited to explain Pleistocene's fauna extinction; with enough scientific data to prove otherwise, second-order predation serves a viable alternate theory to clarify the cause of such massive loss. It is not the least bit unusual or unexpected to suspect H. sapiens as the primary culprit of animal extinction during the Ice Age, inasmuch as man has been repeating this pattern ever since H. sapiens entered the planet's timeline. A clear case of history repeating itself, second-order predation as a cause for the Pleistocene extinction illustrates how human presence then -- as it continues to be now -- quickly evolves into an imbalance of resources pointed toward H. sapiens' favor. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to clarify the cause of such massive loss to the animal kingdom. It is not the least bit unusual or unexpected to suspect H. sapiens as the primary culprit
of animal extinction during the Ice Age, inasmuch as man has been repeating this pattern ever since H. sapiens entered the planets timeline. A clear case of history repeating
itself, second-order predation as a cause for the Pleistocene period extinction illustrates how human presence then -- as it continues to be now -- quickly evolved into an imbalance of
resources that not only benefited the human species but drew life from the rest of the flora and fauna to the point where certain animal species could not sustain the
imbalance. The current theories of the Pleistocene extinction (Climate change and Overkill by H. sapiens) are inadequate. Neither explains why: (1) browsers, mixed feeders and non-ruminant grazer species suffered
most, while ruminant grazers like bison generally survived, (2) surviving mammal species, including both subspecies of bison, were sharply diminished in size; and (3) vegetative environments shifted from plaid to
striped...In addition, climate change theories do not explain why mammoths and other megaherbivores survived changes of similar magnitude (Whitney-Smith, 2008, p. 239). Nature has very effectively balanced the animal
kingdom with predators and prey; when the predator population is drastically reduce to present a disproportion between the two, the intact prey group increases exponentially to the point where environmental
(plant-based) resources quickly deplete until food supplies are gone and extinction is the result. One of several pieces of supportive evidence points to the bison as an example of
what the animal kingdom is capable of achieving in the name of survival, inasmuch as two subspecies evolved during the Pleistocene period that point directly to how environmental exhaustion "selectively
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