almost all species that ever lived are extinct yet there are more species alive now than at any point in the past
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Tweet · Jul 29, 2023More than 99 percent of all species that have ever lived on Earth are extinctReply · Aug 5, 2023@KojimaErgoSum yes ofc I think abt the number of past species- it's interesting to remember that there were previous mass extinctions and then what…Reply · Jan 24, 2023@heyorson that species are going extinct much faster than the usual rate / much faster than they're filling back in... and evolution takes long enough…Repost · May 16, 2023RT @michael_nielsen: A strange question: what species have been most implicated in their own extinction? It's slightly peculiar because we…