Comments on: Tectonic Tales of Life: How Geology Has Influenced Evolution for the Past 500 Million Years https://scitechdaily.com/tectonic-tales-of-life-how-geology-has-influenced-evolution-for-the-past-500-million-years/ Science, Space and Technology News 2023 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Clyde Spencer https://scitechdaily.com/tectonic-tales-of-life-how-geology-has-influenced-evolution-for-the-past-500-million-years/#comment-822053 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:28:05 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=333310#comment-822053 “That is a rate incomparably slower than the current rates of extinction caused by human activity,”

Where is it written that extinction rates should be the same as recovery or diversification rates? It seems that, as a general rule, extinctions occur much more rapidly than recoveries. Extinctions seem to have a periodicity of about 27 million years, and we don’t know why.

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-that-global-mass-extinctions-of-land-dwelling-animals-follow-a-27-million-year-cycle/

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