The extinction of mammoths and other members of the Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex is here =buted to the effects of natural habitat fragmentation occurring as the result of the climatic changes of the Late Pleistocene. This habitat fragmentation led to isolated populations of megafauna, which populations eventually underwent phenomena of insular evolution. This explains the presence of diminutive or supposed "dwarf" mammoths and other mammal species on several localities in Eurasia and N. America. Human predation then contributed to the demise of vulnerable isolate populations living in the refugial habitat fragments. This hypothesis combines the influence of both climate changes and human hunters. © E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele u. Obermiller), 2007.