How did the Woolly Mammoth go Extinct?

[Mal12345]

http://www.science20.com/news/why_did_woolly_mammoths_die

“In combination with the results on other species, a picture is emerging of extinction not as a sudden event at the end of the last ice age, but as a piecemeal process over tens of thousands of years involving progressive loss of genetic diversity,” said Dr. Ian Barnes, of Royal Holloway, University of London. “For the mammoth, this seems much more likely to have been driven by environmental rather than human causes, even if humans might have been responsible for killing off the small, terminal populations that were left.”

 

[Domino]

I've always had a beef (mammoth beef, naturally) with the human-centered extinction of the mammoth. Human populations simply were NOT great enough at the time to wipe out an entire species.

 

[Quinlan]

Phew that's a weight off my shoulders.

 

[Domino]

Phew that's a weight off my shoulders.

No, you still look pretty tasty from the rare glimpses we've gotten and the hospitalizations of anxious senior citizens who've seen you roaming their yards.