The extinction of woolly mammoths was caused by a combination of climate change and human hunting, according to a study that simulated the processes that drove their demise.
The simulation suggests that the mammoths would not have died out when they did if it were not for humans.
“In the absence of humans, we would expect woolly mammoths would have persisted for an extra 4000 years in some areas,” says Damien Fordham at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. …