Timeline for How could a species be engineered to go extinct?
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Mar 20, 2018 at 7:24 | vote | accept | Nathan H | ||
Mar 20, 2018 at 6:21 | comment | added | forest | They can't actually cause extinction. I find it irritating that all the news articles are spouting off about that. If I recall correctly, the most recent studies have shown that it can, at the very best, reduce the population by something like 80%. | |
Mar 19, 2018 at 20:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBiology/status/975829907224891392 | ||
Mar 19, 2018 at 16:11 | answer | added | Bryan Krause♦ | timeline score: 46 | |
Mar 19, 2018 at 15:23 | comment | added | rotaredom | Not sure about this particular case, but in some cases it involves adding so many of the altered species that non-altered species have trouble finding the necessary food, etc. In other cases, I've heard that it can involve injecting species which will produce infertile offspring which will do this. | |
Mar 19, 2018 at 15:07 | review | First posts | |||
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Mar 19, 2018 at 15:06 | history | asked | Nathan H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |