Re: Where is the evolution when you need it the most.
nmp wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:25:45 +0000, it was decided that NashtOn should
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>>Species are disappearing by the hundreds each year because of an altered
>>environment caused by the abuse and pollution of Humans.
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> Yes, very unfortunate. We are a plague :(
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A plague to whom?
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> For animals that have evolved to become specialized into a particular
> environment, or to live on a specific kind of food, the changes that
> you mention are just happening too fast. Orang utan are completely
> adapted to a life in the trees. Take away their trees, their forests, and
> where are the orang utan going to go?
To oblivion.
However compare to previous extinctions what humans do to other animals
and plants is small time.
The Permian-Triassic (P-T or PT) extinction event, sometimes informally
called the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred
approximately 252 million years ago (mya), forming the boundary between
the Permian and Triassic geologic periods. It was the Earth's most
severe extinction event, with about 90 percent of all marine species and
70 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species going extinct. For some
time after the event, fungal species were the dominant form of
terrestrial life.
Nothing humans have done or are capable of doing can match this.
Bob Kolker
Bob Kolker
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