SMALL BRAINS PREDISPOSED LATE QUATERNARY MAMMALS TO EXTINCTION

Small brains predisposed Late Quaternary mammals to extinction

Abstract The Late Quaternary witnessed a dramatic wave of large mammal extinctions, that are usually attributed to either human hunting or climatic change.We hypothesized that the large mammals that survived the extinctions might have been endowed with larger brain sizes than their relatives, which could have conferred enhanced behavioral plasticit

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