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Flightless birds were more common before human-driven extinctions – new study – The Conversation UK
Evolution towards flightlessness has been much more common through history than scientists once thought.
When the first humans started to colonise all the regions of the world, many species went extinct. Some were directly hunted to extinction, others saw their habitats destroyed, and yet more were wiped out by the introduction of non-native predators like rats.
One of the consequences of human-driven extinctions is the distortion of biological patterns. Studying how evolution works is more challenging if humans have caused many species to go extinct, because the diversity we see today may not be…
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