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he fossil record shows evidence of five mass extinctions during the history of life on earth. These mass extinctions were dramatic events, some involving meteors and others involving the extinction of 90+% of species on earth. Which of the following is true of the new event we call the Anthropocene?

A. The meteor strike at the K/T boundary explains the recent extinction of the pleistocene megafauna B. We are currently in a sixth, human induced, mass extinction which rivals previous mass extinction events C. Conservation biologists are obviously concerned about habitat destruction, but to relate the “Anthropcene” to a sixth mass extinction, is an overstatement D. The very concept of an Anthropecene is an invention of the left/right wing media establishment 50 40 S 30 20 10 end-Permian end-Cretaceous end-Ordovician end-Triassic end-Devonian T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T 0 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 Millions of years before present time

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Mass extictions include extiction of maximum species from the earth.The new event Anthropocene.....

B. We are currently in a sixth,human induced,mass extiction which rivals previous mass extinction.

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