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Current extinction rates haven't reached level of 'mass extinction' just yet, study suggests
Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass extinction just yet, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by John Wiens of the University of Arizona, U.S., and Kristen Saban of Harvard University, U.S.
Hundreds of species have been extinct in recent centuries, but the losses are few among the largest classification levels, which means that we are not yet witnessing mass extinction.
An analysis of the decline in biodiversity over the past 500 years concluded that, despite the threat to many species, the phenomenon did not directly affect the genes and families of the organisms.
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