“That Science article missed a few important points.”

The paper considered hunting in all parts of the world except Antarctica so your assertion it focused mainly on hunting in the third world is demonstrably untrue. The data for terrestrial animals data was drawn from 99 studies (Table S2), 89 of these were from Europe and North America and 10 from the third world -…

Natural deaths are not be pleasant but it is usually the weaker and less fit and the old that die leaving a healthy population behind. Humans target the large, the fit and the healthy leaving behind a weakened population less able to survive in the long term.

Human hunters are not the same as other animals. Most animals target young or sick individuals. Humans target large healthy individuals in their prime. This has two harmful consequences. It removes the animals from the population that are at the peak of their reproductive potential and acts as a selective agent…