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It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, this time caused entirely by humans. Although considerable evidence indicates that there is a biodiversity crisis of increasing extinctions and plummeting abundances, some do not accept that this amounts to a Sixth Mass Extinction.
1 lut 2020 · Current mass extinction is underway through anthropogenic activities, widespread diseases, and the possibility of extraterrestrial bolide impacts.
4 paź 2024 · Mass extinctions are considered to be quintessential examples of Court Jester drivers of macroevolution, whereby abiotic pressures drive a suite of extinctions leading to huge ecosystem...
22 wrz 2023 · ‘Mass extinctions’ have been a hot topic for several decades. What triggers a mass extinction? How does a mass extinction impact the evolution of life? How does our ecosystem recover after a mass extinction? These questions attracted the interest of both scientists and the public alike.
13 sty 2022 · Summary: The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass...
8 wrz 2023 · Since 1980, research on the causation of mass extinctions has been characterized by a ‘bandwagon effect’, in which a model developed for one specific mass extinction is claimed to apply to many or all biocrises, reducing agency to a single cause.
5 sty 2023 · Over 40 years ago, Raup and Sepkoski identified five episodes of elevated extinction in the marine fossil record that were thought to be statistically distinct, thus warranting the term the “Big Five” mass extinctions.
