Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Background Extinction." In Ordinary Times - Times Here Understood To Mean Whole Geologic Epochs - Extinction Takes Place Only Very Rarely, More Rarely Even Than Speciation, And It Occurs At What's Known As The Background Extinction Rate. This Rate Varies From One Group Of Organisms To Another; Often It's Expressed In Terms Of Extinctions Per Million Species-years.

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