Sentences with phrase «eventually leading to the extinction»

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

This isn't doing any favors for the dogs, and it will eventually lead to the extinction of the breeds (or «breed types») that so many of us love.

Not exact matches

Some 50 million years later, an LIP called the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province coincided with another mass extinction — one that eventually led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

Because their populations are already small in the region, barriers that isolate bears could eventually lead to inbreeding, increasing the risk of local extinction over time.

Scientists think that a giant asteroid, which broke up long ago in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, eventually made its way to Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.