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The article Did the Earth’s magnetic field affect our evolution? on Pledge Times cite this Science paper to assert:

These authors speculate that, in the Pleistocene, large mammals could have reached a natural limit of body size until the arrival of Laschamps, when the probability of cell mutation would increase at times of high ultraviolet ray flux. It would not be a catastrophic, instantaneous extinction, but rather an accumulation of mutations produced by radiation over multiple generations, over several thousand years, which is the duration of the minimum intensity of the geomagnetic field during geomagnetic inversions.

My question is: Is there any study correlating other geomagnetic inversions with extinctions in fauna?

Alan Cooper et al(2021): "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago." Science 19 Feb 2021. Vol. 371, Issue 6531, pp. 811-818

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    $\begingroup$ related earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/17110/… $\endgroup$
    – trond hansen
    Apr 24, 2021 at 6:44
  • $\begingroup$ The paper goes a long way speculating. No direct evidence on the northern hemisphere connects Laschamps excursion (or any precursory phase, or any geomagnetic excursion in earth's history at all) to an extinction, and the climate record is actually quite good. $\endgroup$
    – user22279
    Apr 25, 2021 at 16:28
  • $\begingroup$ @Mark that question is specific for dinosaurs extinction while mine ask for any extinction $\endgroup$
    – user20559
    May 8, 2021 at 9:31
  • $\begingroup$ @Universal_learner, the question may be specific, but the answers aren't. $\endgroup$
    – Mark
    May 8, 2021 at 20:03
  • $\begingroup$ @Mark Ok I accept the duplicate. Your answer explain my question $\endgroup$
    – user20559
    May 9, 2021 at 10:32

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