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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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    The Holocene extinction, also referred to as the Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event caused by human activities during the Holocene...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • sixth extinction. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during...
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  • Carcharodon, Carcharocles, and several other names. There is an ongoing de-extinction project to revive the bush moa through genome editing, this entry refers...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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