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Extinction Extinction Andy Purvis,1* Kate E. Jones,1 and Georgina M. Mace2 Summary In the life of any species, extinction is the final evolu- tionary process. It is a common one at present, as the world is entering a major extinction crisis. The pattern of extinction and threat is very non-random, with some taxa being more vulnerable than others. Explaining why some taxa are affected and some escape is a major goal of conservation biology. More ambitiously, a predictive model could, in princi