The Late-Pleistocene extinction of megafauna compared with the growth of human population
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Human influence on the environment is now so strong that a new geological era has been proposed (Crutzen & Stoermer, 2000), the Anthropocene, the Age of Man, the era shaped strongly, for the first time in human history, by humans. It is largely a destructive influence (Nielsen, 2005, 2006, 2007) threatening our own existence, the influence reflected in the human-mediated climate change, in the increasing pollution of land, water and atmosphere, in the accumulation of weapons of mass destruction capable of destroying not only humans but
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