Mutilation of the tree of life via mass extinction of animal genera | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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mutilation of the tree of life serious threat to the stability of civilization If all now-endangered genera were to vanish by 2,100, extinction rates would be 354 (average) or 511 (for mammals) times higher than background rates, meaning that genera lost in three centuries would have taken 106,000 a
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- mutilation of the tree of life
- serious threat to the stability of civilization
- If all now-endangered genera were to vanish by 2,100, extinction rates would be 354 (average) or 511 (for mammals) times higher than background rates, meaning that genera lost in three centuries would have taken 106,000 and 153,000 y to become EX in the absence of humans.
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