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7:46 PM Thu Oct 26 ece coall ® @ 58%0 ) rmerastrremare auKkIsS mow onaisprayatrtme Natarar rstory iviuaseurm ' of Los Angeles. 16. What wildlife protection act was Newton responsible for? How did he persuade people to enact this? He was responsible for the Act for the Preservation of Sea Birds. He persuaded them by giving them an example of how cruel we are being to these beautiful creatures. He says we are killing parents that then lead to the off-spring (babies) to have miserable deaths 17. Who else was onto the idea of evolution and natural selection at the same time as Darwin? Alfred Russel Wallace was onto a similar idea. 18. What other species in this chapter went extinct in the Galapagos? Look it up and describe it. Is it really extinct? Explain. Click on the assignment on Canvas to access two articles to help you answer this question. Galapagos giant tortoise species more specifically Chelonoidis elephantopus which did not really go extinct. They were actually rediscovered, they found a remote volcano in the Galapagos Islands that hosted many giant tortoises with high ancestry from a species previously declared as extinct which were Chelonoidis elephantopus. 19. Do you think humans are creatures outside of nature because of the extinctions they cause? Explain. | do think this is somewhat true because most of the time that a species goes extinct, it is because of a human-involved incident or event. You can even take the great auks, we drove them to extinction. 20. Do you think humans are responsible for cataclysms? Explain. Yes, whether we are using it for entertainment or food or just for resources in general we are hurting the natural world. | think nowadays we have become somewhat greedy and arrogant to th fact that nature isn’t there strictly for our needs. WHich is why we find it so easy to take and take. 3