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The Role of Geomagnetic Field Intensity in Late Quaternary Evolution of Humans and Large Mammals

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Laschamp Event

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Earlier peer-reviewed pro-causation hypothesis connecting weak-field intervals to Neanderthal and megafaunal change; must not be mislabeled as corrective literature.

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The magnitude and causality of environmental and biological effects attributed to the Laschamp excursion remain disputed.

The Laschamp Event should be treated as one of the strongest real events in the catastrophe-adjacent section of the map. It happened, it weakened Earth's magnetic field, and it increased cosmogenic isotope production.
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The 2021 global-environmental-crisis interpretation is a published hypothesis rather than settled consensus.

The Laschamp Event should be treated as one of the strongest real events in the catastrophe-adjacent section of the map. It happened, it weakened Earth's magnetic field, and it increased cosmogenic isotope production.
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The listed literature proposes geomagnetic weakening as a possible environmental stressor, but does not establish the Laschamp event as the cause of Neanderthal decline.

Answer / theory: It may have added environmental stress, but it is not proven as the cause. What supports it: Timing overlap with the Late Pleistocene transition and possible radiation / ozone effects. What is weak or disputed: Neanderthal decline involved climate, population structure, competition, admixture, and regional complexity. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence to Weak Evidence.
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Cooper et al. proposed a global environmental crisis near the Laschamp event, but the listed model and review literature do not establish that it transformed human and animal history.

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