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Writing for The New Republic, Jerry Coyne and Hopi E. Hoekstra state: "After the Great Dying, as the end-Permian extinction is called, Earth's biodiversity didn't bounce back for more than ten million years. Aside from the Great Dying, there have been four other mass extinctions, all of which severely pruned life's diversity. Scientists agree that we're now in the midst of a sixth such episode. This new one, however, is different - and, in many ways, much worse. For, unlike earlier extinctions, this one results from the work of a single species, Homo sapiens."

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