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humanimalia-9911	Schuster, Joshua	The Future of the Extinction Plot: Last Animals and Humans in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy	2015	23	.pdf	application/pdf	9822	455	53	The end of an animal species raises complex questions about how to define species, how speciation works, how to record species loss, and how human power and attitudes toward species difference are factors in escalating rates of animal extinction today. Scientists began to use the phrase “The Sixth Mass Extinction” a few decades ago to describe the recent escalation in plant and animal extinction, comparing the current depletion of species to five previous massive extinction events that have been verified using fossil records (Leakey and Lewin).	cache/humanimalia-9911.pdf	txt/humanimalia-9911.txt