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Over a century ago, Alfred Russell Wallace wrote that "we live in a zoologically poor world, from which all the hugest, fiercest
Over a century ago, Alfred Russell Wallace wrote that "we live in a zoologically poor world, from which all the hugest, fiercest
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2013-07-02
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Over a century ago, Alfred Russell Wallace wrote that "we live in a zoologically poor world, from which all the hugest, fiercest and strangest forms have recently disappeared. " Researchers seeking to explain this " marvelous fact", as Wallace called it, fall into two camps, one invoking global climatic change and the other human hunting as the cause.
Over the past few decades, the debate has become
deadlocked, in part because most researchers have focused their attention on the Americas and northern Eurasia, where the extinction of the huge, fierce, and strange creatures, such as mammoths, and giant sloths(大树懒), occurred between 12, 500 and about 11, 000 years ago. This was a time of rapid climatic change, but it was also when humans first arrived in these regions, making it difficult to discern causality. Australia provides the only separate, continent-sized natural laboratory in which dramatic Quaternary extinctions occurred. It is thus of exceptional importance as a testing ground for extinction theories, but until now problems with dating have limited its potential. Miller and some people have now documented the extinction of the gigantic Australian bird and so have broken new ground in dating huge creatures extinction in Australia. At the same time, these authors have broken the current deadlock in the great huge creature extinction debate.
It has long been appreciated that the intensity of Quaternary extinctions varied greatly around the world. In the oceans, Africa, and Southeast Asia, they were nonexistent or mild. Europe experienced moderate extinction rates, whereas the Americas, Australia, Madagascar, and many Oceanic islands suffered dramatic extinctions. North America lost 73% of all forms weighing more than 44 kg, but Australia suffered the most severely of all the continents, losing every terrestrial vertebrate(脊椎动物)species larger than a human, as well as many smaller mammals, reptiles, and flightless birds, the latter down to about a kilogram in weight. In all, about 60 vertebrate species were lost, including bizarre marsupials(有袋类动物)that resembled giant sloths, kangaroos, and a terrestrial horned tortoise that approached the size of a Volkswagen Beetle car. Establishing just when this bizarre array of creatures last trod Australia’s outback has been an intricate business, with many false leads and sites that are difficult to interpret.
For decades, it was believed that the huge creatures survived until close to the time of the glacial maximum, some 20, 000 years ago, when temperatures were up to 9t cooler than at present and the continent was extremely arid. Conditions were so extreme that trees virtually disappeared from the inland, and 40% of Australia was transformed into a vast active dune field.
Alfred Russell Wallace thought our world is zoologically poor because of______.
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答案
the disappearing of the hugest, fiercest and strangest forms
解析
根据线索词zoologically poor定位在第一段第一句话上,文中说我们生活在一个物种数量减少的时代,所有那些最大、最凶猛、最奇怪的物种近来都从世界上消失了…,本题将原文中的from which…非限制性定语从句转化成一个原因状语,需用disappear的动名词形式。
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