De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct...
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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...
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Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid...
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Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if...
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Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event...
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P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event,...
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Holocene extinction, or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event caused by humans during the Holocene epoch. These extinctions span numerous...
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The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species...
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The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the...
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The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal...
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the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history...
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Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Devonian extinction consisted of several...
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Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that: It disappears from the fossil record, or historic reports of its existence...
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Resident Evil: Extinction is a 2007 action horror film directed by Russell Mulcahy and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. A direct sequel to Resident Evil:...
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Lists of extinct species (section Recent extinction)
lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem...
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The extinction symbol represents the threat of holocene extinction on Earth; a circle represents the planet and a stylised hourglass is a warning that...
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Cloning (section De-extinction)
challenge of genetic-editing-based de-extinction, suggesting resources spent on more comprehensive de-extinction projects such as of the woolly mammoth...
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Resurrection (section De-extinction)
nanobiotechnology) as a form of mind uploading (see also: wetware computer). De-extinction, enabling an organism that either resembles or is an extinct species...
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In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery...
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Neanderthal extinction Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission of...
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Background extinction rate, also known as the normal extinction rate, refers to the standard rate of extinction in Earth's geological and biological history...
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This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor: "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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Pyrenean ibex (category Mammal extinctions since 1500)
1365-2907.2002.00097.x. hdl:10261/62905. "The First De-extinction: Alberto Fernandez-Arias at TEDxDeExtinction" TedxTalks, published April 1, 2013. Retrieved...
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genome, states in her 2015 book How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction, that a mammoth will never be cloned, at least not one that is pure...
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his lab in Boston. Lamm was intrigued by press reports of Church's de-extinction idea. Colossal was officially launched on September 13, 2021. The launch...
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Bird extinction is the complete elimination of all species members under the taxonomic class, Aves. Out of all known bird species, (approximately 11,154)...
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Highest risk of extinction in the wild Endangered (EN) – Higher risk of extinction in the wild Vulnerable (VU) – High risk of extinction in the wild Near...
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Thylacine (category Holocene extinctions)
2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019. Le Page, Michael (26 October 2024). "De-extinction company claims it has a nearly complete thylacine genome". New Scientist...
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E-OG Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also...
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