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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life

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Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life

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The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.
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