Mark Cocker

Man’s fraught relationship with nature extends back to prehistory

Archaeology indicates that the first migrations of hunters through Asia into the Americas and Australasia directly contributed to collapses in the Pleistocene megafauna

An artist’s impression of a woolly mammoth, the extinct genus of elephant from the Pleistocene era. [Getty Images]
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