Part 1: The Sixth Extinction and the Anthropocene’s Pleistocene origins
Daily Maverick | 27.01.2026 03:52
Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the planet as Homo sapiens, preceded in some cases by its kin, journeyed from the Cradle of Humankind in Africa and wiped out numerous species of mostly large mammals.
