My prediction is starting to come true:

https://scitechdaily.com/humans-had-significant-role-in-the-extinction-of-the-woolly-mammoth/

Percy, I should have remarked that the differences seen today can probably be attributed to changes in microclimates as the islands became isolated. They are of different sizes and the water availability probably varies. If there are unique species of plants and animals on the Channel Islands, it may be the result of evolutionary changes as Darwin noted in the Galapagos Islands. The mammoths that survived on the islands underwent a reduction in size resulting from restricted resources and no need for size as protection against predators. It is a well-known response to isolation on islands.

Percy, you asked, “Were the geographical features and vegetation of Wrangel Island and other known islands of longer mammoth survival the same as on the mainland? Is the geography and vegetation of the Channel Islands the same as on mainland California?”

The answer is, they WERE probably the same because the islands were created from flooding what was then the ‘mainland.’ That is, with the melting of the glaciers, sea level rose rapidly, stranding animals on high spots that then became islands. However, the vegetation in Southern California was different from the vegetation in the Arctic. That is why I think the vegetation played a role that was less important than the authors claim.

The answer to both is NO. The Channel Islands in particular, have quite a number of unique species of plants and animals.

Mammoths certainly did not become extinct in one sudden event, everywhere at once. That they may have survived longer in ISOLATED areas which may be different from even nearby environments is entirely predicable, and can certainly be seen in action today for numerous species of endangered species.

But, the use of the word “proof” as used in the article is really, to use scientific idiom, dumb.

But, nonetheless, you really should go away. This is a publication meant for functional adults – not you.

I think that someone is being over-confident. I predict that this will continue to be controversial for years.

The authors state an inconvenient fact:

“Populations were known to have initially survived the end of the last Ice Age in small pockets off the coasts of Siberia and Alaska – on Wrangel Island and St Paul Island – but the research found they actually lived longer elsewhere too and the breeds of mammoths on both the islands were closely related despite being geographically separated.”

What is inconvenient is that these islands were not occupied by humans, and the melting pretty much took place everywhere. Also, late survivors apparently stranded on the Channel Islands in Southern California, also did not experience hunting pressures, and had different diets than their northern cousins. The conditions depicted in the article at the end of the Pleistocene certainly did not prevail in the southern US, especially the Southwest. Close, but not ‘seegar.’

You have no idea what it was! Do you remember “scientist” telling/lying with Al Gore in 1999 that New York City would be under 3ft of water by 2000? I know you remember! Maybe you’re a newly graduated “greenhorn” drinking milk & mezcal? Furthermore, let us not forget how Harvard University falsified its research for dow chemical for creation of silicon breast implants! Women started dying! Women went on tv! TV anchors, Harvard, Dow Chemical called them liars and mentally ill! Yes! Wait for it ..”until enough women started dying, just like covid vaccines!”