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    Recently, there have been many articles relating to animals and their survival skills. Also, many researchers have been focusing on the daily life of a species and how well they can cooperate with both their neighbors and the wildlife surrounding them. Many have found that animals are much smarter than they are thought to be. They have a lot of potential which most species use to the fullest of their ability. For example, Allegra Staples wrote an article explaining how some spiders have recently

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    I. Animal Endangerment/Extinction II. Abused/Abandoned Animals III. Over Farming/Land Misuse IV. Environmental Pollution V. Deforestation I. Animal Endangerment/Extinction A. Destruction of Habitat B. Pollution C. Hunting and Fishing II. Abused/Abandoned Animals A. Confined, Major Culprit Climate Change B. Huge Amounts of Manure, Pollutes Soil C. Dead Animals, Pollutes the quality of life for individuals who live close. III. Over Farmed/Land Misuse A. Soil Erosion B. Land Degradation C

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    The Consequences and the Extinction of Animals By Climate Change “The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences” (Al Gore). Global warming is a nationwide problem that is affecting people and the environment by the greenhouse gases. Global warming increases the atmospheric temperature. For instance, the solar radiation is reflected by the Earth’s atmosphere. Earth 's surface

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    Imagine a world where one extinct animal causes chaos. It eats all the plants and invades other animals territory. Animals are dropping like flies due to one extinct, no longer existing, animal being brought into the world once again this time by humans. Humans also can be the cause of extinction hunting, destroying an animal's home, pollution, and introduction of alien species are just a few ways that we can cause extinction of an animal. Extinction can also occur naturally when disease is spread

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    prehistoric times that was represented by the fossils of plants and animals. His overkill theory was that he argued, that humans were very much responsible of over hunting for the Late Pleistocene extinction of megafauna of mammoth, slots and Neanderthals in northern Eurasia and North and South America in the last thousands years ago. ‘’ to me the core piece of evidence for human involvement is that when viewed globally, near time extinctions took place episodically, in a pattern not correlating with climatic

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    “De-extinction, or resurrection biology, is the process of creating an organism, which is either a member of, or resembles an extinct species, or breeding population of such organisms. Cloning is the most widely proposed method, although selective breeding has also been proposed. Similar techniques have been applied to endangered species.” (Wikipedia) Scientist should not de-extinct species because people could be exploiting these animals solely for selfish purposes. Ultimately causing individuals

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    Potential Effects of the Next Extinction When the 6th Mass Extinction does occur, the effects will be tremendous. Unlike the other extinctions, it is predicted that the changes associated with this extinction will not only create a new epoch in history, but also shape the Earth in the way microbes evolved into multicellular organisms did (Hance, 2015). The effects, however, will be somewhat similar to past extinctions. One predicted effect of the 6th Mass Extinction is the availability of empty

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    Overkill hypothesis, considers that humans were the sole contributors to the Late Quaternary extinction of megafauna that happened in the last 50,000 years in various continents, mainly in the Americas and Australia. According to Martin, as humans started colonizing new areas of the world, they introduced predators, competitors and disease vectors. Due to such introductions, the megafauna faced extinctions as they were hunted for food and clothing, caught diseases brought on by the humans and new

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    De-extinction, the revival of extinct species through cloning, has reasons for and against it. However, the Point argument supporting it was better because it explained how reviving these species would not only be beneficial in that area of studies, but in science and the world as a whole. There are many reasons stated for this, including the repairing of Earth and the expansion of human knowledge and capabilities. As stated in the Point argument, de-extinction is a way to undo what humans have

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    outweigh the cons. De-extinction does this in certainty of different environmental and health benefits. De-extinction could provide help ”to preserve highly endangered species.”(Text 1, Line 26) The research of de-extinction would be able to help conserve small populations of species resulted from the practice of having to preserve a species to keep it from returning to extinction. This would than help to maintain present-day endangered species to maintain from extinction. In similar fashion, another

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