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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Extinction''' is the technical term for what happens to a [[species]] when none of its members are living. It wasn't so very long ago that prominent [[Creationists]] declared it wasn't possible for any species to go extinct, because that would indicate that God had messed up somehow when He created the universe. [[Georges Cuvier]] first showed otherwise, demonstrating that [[mammoths]] are a now-extinct species of elephant, and that several other fossil species correspond to no living ones.<br /> <br /> While extinction is usually the result of a species' chronic failure to reproduce, it should be noted that a species may also be reduced to a population of zero when, due to gradual accumulation of mutations over time, the species' current offspring can no longer be recognized as belonging to the ancestral species.<br /> <br /> Extinction can also occur due to abiotic factors, e.g., extraterrestrial causation, volcanism, etc.<br /> <br /> See [[Mass extinction]]</div>

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