Many scientists believe that the loss of the megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene was due to overhunting. What factor gives reason to question this hypothesis?
A) The population of humans at the time was far too low to have had such an effect on mammal populations.
B) Many birds went extinct around the same time, and there was no evidence that they were hunted.
C) There is evidence that Pleistocene people scavenged, rather than hunted, for their meat.
D) The megafauna did not go extinct; rather, the changing climate at the time favored smaller variants of these species.
B) Many birds went extinct around the same time, and there was no evidence that they were hunted.
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