extinction
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The fallen Sinestro calls fear an evolutionary intelligence: “Show me a species that’s fearless, I’ll show you something on the extinction list,” he says.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
AI researchers have warned that the technology could lead to human extinction, adding urgency to both policy and philosophical debates.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The two movements overlap heavily in membership and ideas, sharing an emphasis on reasoning through evidence and probabilities, and a conviction that preventing human extinction should be a top priority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"This lets us more precisely infer causality between events in the geologic record, for example a meteor impact structure and a mass extinction," Renne said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two.
From "1984" by George Orwell
It leads the world in mammal extinctions, and medals when it comes to the loss of other species classes too.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
It may also have contributed to mass extinctions by changing ocean chemistry, climate, and the amount of oxygen available in seawater.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Climate change, species extinctions, and widespread pollution are all linked to the ways human societies have expanded and intensified their use of natural resources.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Kevin said it was much more likely for extinctions to happen in localised areas, something that has already happened.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
It is a testament to the strength of Lyell’s sway that in the 1980s when geologists had to abandon just a part of it to accommodate the impact theory of extinctions, it nearly killed them.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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