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Extinction
Extinction Ex*tinc"tion, n. [L. extinctio, exstinction: cf. F.
extinction.]
1. The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an
end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire,
life, activity, influence, etc.
2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be;
destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a
family, of a quarrel, of claim.
Meaning of Extinctions from wikipedia
- much of the 20th century, the
study of m****
extinctions was
hampered by
insufficient data. M****
extinctions,
though acknowledged, were
considered mysterious...
- for
hundreds of
millions of years. M****
extinctions are
relatively rare events; however,
isolated extinctions of
species and
clades are
quite common,...
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diversity across the globe. The
extinctions during the Late
Pleistocene are
differentiated from
previous extinctions by its
extreme size bias towards...
- crisis. Many of
these extinctions are undo****ented, as the
species are
often undiscovered before their extinctions.
Current extinction rates are estimated...
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though it
still exists elsewhere.
Local extinctions are
contrasted with
global extinctions.
Local extinctions mark a
change in the
ecology of an area...
- It is also the
greatest known m****
extinction of insects. It is the
greatest of the "Big Five" m****
extinctions of the Phanerozoic.
There is evidence...
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extinctions,
which is
unprecented in
previous extinctions during the last 30
million years.
Various theories have
attributed the wave of
extinctions to...
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Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a UK-founded
global environmental movement, with the
stated aim of
using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel...
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catastrophic extinctions, but
rather represented unrecognised gaps[clarification needed] in the record. As the
possibility of
extinction became more widely...
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Partial list from Image:
Extinction Intensity.png Bond,
David P. G.; Grasby,
Stephen E. (2017-07-15). "On the
causes of m****
extinctions". Palaeogeography,...
