Past tropical forest changes drove megafauna and hominin extinctions

Jena, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2020

In a paper published in the journal Nature, scientists from the Department of Archaeology at MPI-SHH in Germany and Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution have found that the loss of these grasslands was instrumental in the extinction of many of the region's megafauna, and probably of ancient humans too. "Southeast Asia is often overlooked in global discussion