Rise of Humans 2 Million Years Ago Doomed Large Carnivores

Lions are one of just six carnivores that remain in East Africa today, compared with more than 15 species that shared the landscape before the dawn of Homo. Image: Kate Wong The impact of Homo sapiens on the environment over the past few hundred years has been so profound that some scientists term this chapter of Earth s history the Anthropocene . But humans may have begun wreaking ecological havoc far, far earlier than that.

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Rise of Humans 2 Million Years Ago Doomed Large Carnivores