Extinction rates. Modern extinctions in the kilo-death range.
For some groups of species, extinction rates are orders of magnitude higher than expected background rates--many species now last nearer a fateful second than their destined hour.
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-0810.
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Pimm
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D010944:Plants