Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
Monday, October 15, 2018 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3 to 5 million years to recover.