Humans Could Have Caused Megafauna Die Offs Without Having Hunted Anything to Extinction

Thomas Highbaugh
12 min readMar 24, 2022
At least two of these men would have been severely injured to the point of dying from an infection in most cases. Even were humans highly productive when this was on-going, such a loss of hunters would have rendered humanity extinct long before cave bears.

Unfortunately for those who prefer to accept the orthodox explanations posited by whatever people mean when talking about “science” in an amorphous title that calls to mind the notion of “Christendom” that a century ago meant approximately the same groups with the same relative weight, I have a broad set of interests that I apply the very…

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Thomas Highbaugh

Move over Socrates, that hemlock brew has my name all over it.