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Long lives, big impacts: human life expectancy linked to extinction

2014-04-15 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Since the arrival of Homo sapiens, other species have been going extinct at an unprecedented rate. Most scientists now agree that extinction rates are between 100 and 1000 times greater than before humans existed. Working out what is driving these extinctions is fiendishly complicated, but a new study by scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit suggests that human life expectancy may be partly to blame. Increased life expectancy...

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