• cyruseuros
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    1 year ago

    Hold on, the link you posted says 10 to 100 times more than the natural background extinction rate. That’s very far from "any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of the Earth.

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      1 year ago

      No, it says

      100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate

      both in the general intro and in the “Extinction rate” section, and

      10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth

      in the “Extinction rate” section (both verbatim quotes from its first sentence).

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        1 year ago

        Oh, dropped a digit. Should have just taken that nap I was gunning for. My mistake!