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Teaching children to love the earth so it’s so important in this modern era, Mother. Because, the earth is the abode of mankind.
Traces of mankind since ancient times can only be found on earth. All human activities are also carried out on earth. So what would have happened to the earth if humans had never existed?
Some scientists describe the condition as being like a wilderness that is still beautiful. An earth without humans is also full of diverse species, from the familiar to the less familiar.
“I think it’s going to be a much more vegetated place with a wealth of large animals spread across all continents except Antarctica,” said paleontologist and professor at Flinders University in Australia, Trevor Worthy. Live Science.
Worthy also explained that the earth without modern humans could indicate that extinct human relatives will still exist and inhabit the earth. One of them is the presence of Neanderthals, types of early humans who lived in the Pleistocene era. If they were still on earth, then it’s likely they would change the landscape.
According to reviews on Live Science Previously, without humans, the current extinction rate of the earth is more than 100 times you know. These estimates are among the most conservative and have not been higher since the extinction event Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) or the mass extinction that wiped out about 80 percent of animal species, including the nonavian dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.
In a 2015 study, senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, Soren Faurby, suggested that humans played a key role in the disappearance of many large mammals thousands of years ago.
In his research published in the journal Diversity and Distributions, explained that without the presence of humans, most areas of the earth would resemble the modern Serengeti, an African ecosystem teeming with life.
Meanwhile, there are also experts who argue that the land on earth would be much more fertile without the presence of humans. What did he say?
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