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Nature 411, 755-757 (14 June 2001) | doi:10.1038/35081231
Palaeontology: Australia's last giants
Jared M. Diamond
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Abstract
The huge creatures that once roamed Australia were wiped out at about the same time. From the latest analyses, these extinctions look more than ever to be a matter of not what but who dunnit.
During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (the past 100,000 years or so), extinction waves of large animals swept across all of those parts of the world that had previously not been inhabited by humans1. The two largest such waves occurred in Australia and the Americas.
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