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SUBMITTER: Prideaux GJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3009796 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prideaux Gavin J GJ Gully Grant A GA Couzens Aidan M C AM Ayliffe Linda K LK Jankowski Nathan R NR Jacobs Zenobia Z Roberts Richard G RG Hellstrom John C JC Gagan Michael K MK Hatcher Lindsay M LM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101202 51
Explaining the Late Pleistocene demise of many of the world's larger terrestrial vertebrates is arguably the most enduring and debated topic in Quaternary science. Australia lost >90% of its larger species by around 40 thousand years (ka) ago, but the relative importance of human impacts and increased aridity remains unclear. Resolving the debate has been hampered by a lack of sites spanning the last glacial cycle. Here we report on an exceptional faunal succession from Tight Entrance Cave, sout ...[more]