U.S. Agency Declares 21 Species Now Extinct L

Re:U.S. Agency Declares 21 Species Now Extinct L by pvaldes on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:59AM (#38345082)

not so ludicrous. Some species are more important than the other. In terms of biomedicine, the lack of a single species having evolved a unique substance could change the human history.

Without knowing the list, we can't infer a lot about the impact or lack of impact. Some of those species could be obscure hybrids without real impact, the lack of other could be potentially catastrophic; but the effects would have been forgotten by now and assimilated as "the new normality". This is a glimpse of 1950's.

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Re:U.S. Agency Declares 21 Species Now Extinct L by da39a3ee on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:43AM (#38347896)

You missed the bit where the person you're replying to said they knew something about the field. The loss of some species in a genus of Hawaiian honeycreepers is not tragic because of the potential for making medicines out of honeycreepers.

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