We’ve been hunting animals into extinction for 1.5 million years

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**By Daniel T CrossSustainability Times** Humans have had a impact on animal extinctions far longer than commonly thought and our ancestors were hunting species of megafauna into extinction as far back in time as 1.5 million years ago. This is according to a team of scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel who examined fossil records and argue in a study that prehistoric human hunters tended to prefer to target the largest prey animals available because these animals provided the most meat after being killed. After a comprehensive analysis of data on animal bones collected from dozens of pr…

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