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Paul Mc Cann writes:
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| On the recemt television programme on Darwin the remark was made that
| over 99% of the species that have existed on this planet are now
| extinct, or did I hear that right. (No implication that this was a
| recent phenomenon)

That sounds reasonable, given that recognisable species have
existed for hundreds of millions of years.


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