#Goodbye ‘extinction,’ hello ‘evanescence’? Validating a new paradigm
“#Goodbye ‘extinction,’ hello ‘evanescence’? Validating a new paradigm” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier established extinction as a distinct field of science in a series of publications beginning in 1799. He confirmed that fossil species were formerly living species no longer extant, confirming similar conclusions of classical Greek scholars. However, mechanisms thought…