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The causes of extinction

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 1989
A species may go extinct either because it is unable to evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances, or because its niche disappears and no capacity for rapid evolution could have saved it. Although recent extinctions can usually be interpreted as resulting from niche disappearance, the taxonomic distribution of parthenogens suggests that ...
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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

Nature, 2011
A. Barnosky   +11 more
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Extinction and descent

Human Nature, 1994
The probability of lineal extinction is sensitive to all the moments of the reproductive success probability distribution. In particular, high variance in reproductive success is associated with high probability of lineal extinction. Where male variance in reproductive success exceeds female variance, strictly patrilineal lines of descent will become ...
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The pharmacology of extinction

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1992
It is impossible to predict what compounds of pharmacological interest may be present in an unexamined species. The extinction of such species may result, therefore, in the loss of therapeutically significant compounds. The fact that science will never know what has been lost does not lessen the significance of the loss.
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The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

Science, 2014
S. Pimm   +8 more
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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

Science, 1980
L. W. Alvarez   +3 more
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