Ah, like trilobites and dinosaurs. I misunderstood. I was thinking of the
post-ice age megafauna, and the massive species losses in pre-colonial
Australia and New Zealand. But those are obviously not in the same league.
Mark
At 02:44 PM 3/24/2004 +1100, Alison Croggon wrote:
>On 24/3/04 1:34 PM, "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > But there's no question that we're now far better at
> > both than ever before.
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>We've never done a mass extinction before. Only four in the history of the
>earth, I believe...
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>Best
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