Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul

Comment

Stephen Wroe et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013.

. 2013 Sep 3;110(36):E3369.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1310440110.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea).
Wroe S, Field JH, Archer M, Grayson DK, Price GJ, Louys J, Faith JT, Webb GE, Davidson I, Mooney SD. Wroe S, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 May 28;110(22):8777-81. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1302698110. Epub 2013 May 6. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013. PMID: 23650401 Free PMC article.
Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna.
Brook BW, Bradshaw CJ, Cooper A, Johnson CN, Worthy TH, Bird M, Gillespie R, Roberts RG. Brook BW, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Sep 3;110(36):E3368. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1309226110. Epub 2013 Jul 25. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013. PMID: 23886667 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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