Word: extinctionism
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Still another debate has centered on the creatures' demise, which took place 65 million years ago. Numerous explanations have been offered for the mysterious extinction: radiation from an exploding star, a reversal of the earth's magnetic field, a global epidemic, even the destruction of eggs by small...
The British government appears to think so. Last month the National Water Council, which represents regional water authorities in England and Wales, issued its grimmest report ever on the state of the salmon. Illegal catches-the council refrained from using the word poaching-have become so heavy that in some...
In theory, the extinction of the reserve clause should not change the distribution of skill too much and therefore should not decrease the competitiveness of the leagues. The key point to remember is that contracts of players are transferable among teams in exchange for money and/or other players. If a...
Condors usually produce only a single offspring every two years. That gives them plenty of time to tend their young, which take as long as seven years to mature, in a lifetime of perhaps 40 years. But this plodding pace limits the population growth of the big fidgety birds, which...
In the late 1970s, Koestler postulated that death does not signify total extinction. "It means merging into the cosmic consciousness," he wrote in an essay on life after death, comparing the process of dying to "the flow of a river into the ocean." Summoning the rhetorical powers of his youth...