Sentences with phrase «what led to the extinction»

Anthropologists don't know exactly what led to the extinction of Neanderthals, but we know a heck of a lot more than we did just a few decades ago.

As the only living human, you will uncover its many secret areas and solve intriguing puzzles to gradually realise what led to the extinction of almost all organic life

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Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

The work resolves nagging questions about a theory that the impact triggered deadly wildfires around the world, but it also raises new questions about just what led to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.

«These are two of the most fragmented tropical biodiversity hotspots, so they provide vital examples of what can be achieved to prevent extinctions globally,» said lead author William Newmark, research curator and conservation biologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

Babbitt hopes that such basic research will lead to earlier interventions to save key ecosystems before individual species reach the brink of extinction, avoiding what he describes as «environmental and economic train wrecks».

«Understanding how this extinction happened and what role humans may have played could help us understand how extinctions are progressing today and what we can do to prevent them,» says Siobhán Cooke, M.Phil., Ph.D., assistant professor of functional anatomy and evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author of the study, described online in the Journal of Mammalogy on August 1.

What if that celebrated asteroid that supposedly hit Earth 65 million years ago, leading to mass dinosaur extinction, had somehow missed its target?

The set - up is clever: What if the asteroid that hit our planet 65 million years ago and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs whizzed over their heads and missed?

The Pitch: Coria, a renowned Argentinian paleontologist, leads the audience through what the Earth might have been like had dinosaurs not been driven to extinction.

Zhao uses what happened to Easter Island's Rapa Nui civilization that led to their extinction as an analogy for what may happen to us post Race to the Top, given both sets of people are / were driven by false hopes of the gods raining down on them prosperity, should they successfully compete for success and praise.

«Predation by foxes and feral cats is the key driver of extinctions, so we need to change what we've previously done and look at if the dingo can help,» said Dr Thomas Newsome of the University of Sydney, the report's lead author.

What happens when people find out your policy proscriptions are very likely to lead to extinction, and that you knew we needed to aim higher, but thought them too damned stupid or lazy to do so, so settled for 2C?

However, those past climate changes were considerably slower and less intense than what species are expected to experience over the next 30 to 80 years, projections which lead to forecasts of significant future extinctions (Moritz and Agudo, 2013).