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Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

And that makes perfect sense, because when you reduce hunters’ choices to simple math using what’s called the prey choice model (more on that below), these long-lost species offered bigger returns for the effort of hunting. In other words, giant sloths are extinct because they were delicious and made of meat. Yup, it’s humanity’s fault—again As the last Ice Age …

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