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DOI	10.1073/PNAS.2023005118
	No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
	Louys J.; Braje T.J.; Chang C.-H.; Cosgrove R.; Fitzpatrick S.M.; Fujita M.; Hawkins S.; Ingicco T.; Kawamura A.; MacPhee R.D.E.; McDowell M.C.; Meijer H.J.M.; Piper P.J.; Roberts P.; Simmons A.H.; Van den Bergh G.; Van der Geer A.; Kealy S.; O'Connor S.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:20
英文摘要	The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna extinction is anthropogenic overhunting. A common assumption based on late Holocene records is that humans always negatively impact insular biotas, which requires an extrapolation of recent human behavior and technology into the archaeological past. Hominins have been on islands since at least the early Pleistocene and Homo sapiens for at least 50 thousand y (ka). Over such lengthy intervals it is scarcely surprising that significant evolutionary, behavioral, and cultural changes occurred. However, the deep-time link between human arrival and island extinctions has never been explored globally. Here, we examine archaeological and paleontological records of all Pleistocene islands with a documented hominin presence to examine whether humans have always been destructive agents.We show that extinctions at a global level cannot be associated with Pleistocene hominin arrival based on current data and are difficult to disentangle from records of environmental change. It is not until the Holocene that large-scale changes in technology, dispersal, demography, and human behavior visibly affect island ecosystems. The extinction acceleration we are currently experiencing is thus not inherent but rather part of a more recent cultural complex. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Extinction; Holocene; Human colonization; Island biogeography; Megafauna
语种	英语
scopus关键词	acceleration; article; demography; ecosystem; environmental change; Holocene; human; island biogeography; Pleistocene
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238749
作者单位	Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD 4111, Australia; Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 5500, United States; Department of Geology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung City, 404, Taiwan; Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, United States; Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, United States; Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, 110-8718, Japan; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, UMR 7194, Département Homme et Environnement,...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Louys J.,Braje T.J.,Chang C.-H.,et al. No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival[J],2021,118(20).
APA	Louys J..,Braje T.J..,Chang C.-H..,Cosgrove R..,Fitzpatrick S.M..,...&O'Connor S..(2021).No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(20).
MLA	Louys J.,et al."No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.20(2021).