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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a species via the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover.

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Extinction

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related to Further reading · 30
Extinction → Animals, Bringing, CBS News, Ceballos, Circling, David, Day, Dirzo, Earth's, Ehrlich, Elizabeth Pennisi, Gerardo, ISBN, January, March, Natural History, New York, Paul, Pelley, Philosophical Transactions
related to history · 24
Extinction → As, British Isles, Earth, For, God, Hooke, In October, Ireland, Megaloceros, Molyneux, Molyneux's, North American, Prior, Rather, Robert Hooke, Royal Society, Similarly, Sir Thomas Molyneux, The, This
has cause · 15
Extinction → As, Assessing, Beverly, By, It, Just, Mark Newman, Modeling Extinction, Most, Our Final Hour, Sir Martin Rees, Stearns, Stephen, The, When
related to Modern extinctions · 15
Extinction → According, Biologist, Biologists Paul, Earth, Ehrlich, Holocene, However, In, More, Natural History, New York's American Museum, PNAS, Science, Stuart Pimm, Wilson
related to Predation, competition, and disease · 13
Extinction → According, AD, Australia, Hawaii, Human, In, Invasive, Madagascar, New Zealand, North, Recently, South America, Such
related to Human attitudes and interests · 10
Extinction → American, Biologist Bruce Walsh, Governments, Native Americans, Nature, One, Other, United States, While, Worldwide Fund
related to Coextinction · 9
Extinction → An, Coextinction, Haast's, Models, Species, Such, The, There, While
related to Mass extinctions · 8
Extinction → Cretaceous, Olson's Extinction, Paleogene, Permian, Pg, The Cretaceous, There, Triassic
related to Climate change · 7
Extinction → Cape Floristic Region, Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, Caribbean Basin, Climate, Particularly, The, These
see also · 7
Extinction → BioeventEmpty, GenocideHabitat, Planet IndexOur Final HourRefugium, Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation CentreThe, Sixth Extinction, The Facts, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

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Extinctionis atermination of a species via the death of its last member0.90text
Extinctionis asynthesis of the cataclysmic extinction events proposed by Cuvier0.90text
Lazarus taxainstance ofThis difficulty leads to phenomena0.80text
where a species presumed extinct abruptlyinstance ofThis difficulty leads to phenomena0.80text
Australiainstance ofthe swift extinction of the megafauna in areas0.80text
dyinginstance ofbut such studies of modern species only measure indirect effects of extinction and are subject to error sources0.80text
doomed taxa speciating more due to splitting of habitat ranges into more small isolated groups during the habitat retreat of taxa approaching extinctioninstance ofbut such studies of modern species only measure indirect effects of extinction and are subject to error sources0.80text
employmentinstance oftrailing far behind other concerns0.80text
healthcareinstance oftrailing far behind other concerns0.80text
economic growthinstance oftrailing far behind other concerns0.80text
or currency stabilityinstance oftrailing far behind other concerns0.80text
Extinctionhas causeAs0.60section

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