[labster]

I’m kind of miffed that he didn’t include humans in the list of megafauna. Certainly Americans are over 100 pounds.

Being an anachronistic species is not necessarily an inevitable decline. I have a magnolia tree in my front yard — the leaves and petals are frustratingly indestructible, because it was once beetle-pollinated long before bees existed. I wonder how many anachronistic species will do well in the future changed climate. I know dawn redwood has a small range now, in China, but their fossils are found in Alaska.

[senkora]

I would hope that all cultures average over 100 pounds (45 kg) as adults.

[wahern]

The average weight for an adult Efé male is 43.3 kg (< 100 lbs) according to "Patterns of human growth", page 226, Table 5.1, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Patterns_of_Human_Growt... The Efé are one of the well known African pygmy tribes.