We will need 10 million years to recover from extinctions

A pair of UC Berkeley biologists have worked out the mean time it takes the planet to recover from a mass-extinction (rock from space, climate change, Pacific Lumber…,) and the news is depressing. It takes around ten million years for evolutionary processes to fill in all the niches exposed in a mass-extinction event. The takeaway from this is that humanity will never see the recovery from the damage we did. Talk about a curse.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on March 14, 2000 at 12:00 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.