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lora16 [44]
2 years ago
5

What may be causing a current sixth mass extinction on Earth at a rate of about 20 to 200 extinctions per million species per ye

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Geography
1 answer:
LekaFEV [45]2 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Unlike previous mass extinctions, the sixth extinction is due to human actions. Some scientists consider the sixth extinction to have begun with early hominids during the Pleistocene.

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