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"Extinctions" [What Have We Done?], and the defence suggested in Part IV that the distribution of Y-chromosome variants reflects the expansion of
remote central 2009
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"Extinctions" [What Have we Done?] that whole genera can become extinct.
remote central 2008
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"Extinctions" [The Results] the defence will suggest it is even possible that human activity had earlier encouraged the diversity of antelope and gazelle species in Africa.
remote central 2008
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Extinctions result in divergence of character traits.
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Also, spoiler alert—last sentence: Extinctions continued apace and twenty-eight thousand years later the last human, a squalling infant, died alone.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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We already know about past Mass Extinctions caused by impacts with other large objects from outer space.
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Though universally waifish as upper class SoCal moms can tend to be, they nonetheless all drove up in civilian versions of tanks -- Hummers, Ford Expeditions, Cadillac Escalades -- vehicles that my wife Lilli refers to generically as Extinctions.
Nathan Gardels: Calabasas's Singapore Complex: Thank You For Climate Change 2008
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But the choice we face is stark: an Age of Extinctions or an Age of Restoration.
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Extinctions of species are constantly occurring at some background rate, which is normally matched by speciation.
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The consequences of global warming are well known, including Infectious Environmental Diseases, Irreversible Ecological Decline, species Invasions, Extinctions and Death, forced Indigenous Emigration and Displacement, a shift in the oceans thermohaline "conveyor belt," etc.
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