Word: extinctionism
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There was a time in my primitive past when I dealt with mice by setting out the ancient instruments of death - the medieval cheese-baited mouse-whackers that terminate the hungry midnight rodent like the Inquisition nailing a Cathar. In bed, I would hear a trap going off in the...
Driven to Extinction?
Scientists are speculating that primitive people alone may have been responsible for the disappearance of more than 100 species of large animals like the woolly mammoth, hunted mainly for food [SCIENCE, June 18]. Stone Age hunters didn't have to use "pointy sticks" to kill the megafauna. They might well...
The buzz of chain saws and those decomposing corpses were warnings that Van Schaik, and the orangutans he was studying, were running out of time. If these noble great apes were driven to extinction, as now seemed likely, that would mean more than the tragic passing of another of God...
But because of the chaos the country has fallen into and the brutal economics of development, the orange apes were on the verge of a grisly distinction, in danger of becoming the first ape to disappear from the wild. Perhaps 5,000-6,000 survive on Sumatra, half the number...