Sentence examples for since extinction from inspiring English sources

The absence of an organism from a landscape for a long time can be a major barrier to the restoration of that species due to factors such as environmental conditions changing since extinction.

Since extinction is a major component of nearly all behavioral therapies for human fear disorders, this finding supports the notion that therapeutic intervention beginning very soon after a traumatic event will be more efficacious.

The presence of several distinct lineages at higher taxonomic levels may be important to provide resources for future evolutionary innovation [69], [73], especially since extinction and speciation rates differ among taxa.

Since extinction time is very sensitive to changes in the mutation rate, it is conceivable that the anthropogenic release of mutagenic substances could lead to such a strong increase in mutation rate that extinction times are predicted to be in time frames that are frequently considered by conservation biologists.

This is most obvious in the case of the age of U6b1, suggesting that either the first settlement of the Canary Archipelago was earlier than the (admittedly weak) existing archaeological evidence indicates [ 21] or that U6b1 had already arisen prior to colonisation and has since drifted to extinction in the northwest African source, or at least has yet to be sampled.

This year, the Cambodian political landscape saw what could prove to be its biggest change since the extinction of the Khmer Rouge in 1998.

Spanning 79 million years, it represents more time than has elapsed since the extinction of the dinosaurs, which occurred at the end of the period.

The study, published in Nature Geoscience, calculated 98 per cent of nutrient-dispersal has been lost since the extinction of the mega-fauna, which happened around the same time that humans first colonised South America from the north.

During its brief life, it gave basketball its own specific flair its stars included Julie Erving and George Gervin– and left some pining for the lost league in the years since its extinction.

One doesn't have to make the case for the importance of recreational drug use, as almost every society since the extinction of the Neanderthals has to some extent incorporated recreational drug use as a valued or important personal or communal ritual.

Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions By Mark W. Moffett University of California Press, 280 pages, $29.95 hardcover Ants have been subterranean rulers of the earth since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic era.