Earth’s sixth mass extinction is already happening — and it is rapidly accelerating, researchers warned in a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.

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    1 year ago

    highly successful species

    Well let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Judging from the current state, the opposable thumb was wasted on us. Should’ve given it to the Capybaras.

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      You have to have some very particular and eccentric standards to judge humans as not being a successful species.