Ashford 2: – Week 1 – Discussion

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. 

 Biomes and DiversityBefore completing your post, review the Week 1: Biomes & Diversity interactive video, which is designed to assist you in understanding more about this week’s topic and to help you organize your initial post.  Also, watch the video “Choosing Articles and Revising Searches,” which defines the difference between scholarly, reputable, and non-reputable resources.
As you have learned in the readings, extinction is a natural selection process and humans are often responsible for accelerating this process. In your initial post this week, address whether or not we as humans should be concerned with the extinction rate, and justify your decision. Additionally, discuss whether or not humans should strive to preserve reprtative samples of all biomes on the planet, and if so, how that might be accomplished.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Utilize at least two scholarly or reputable resources and your textbook to support your claims. Cite your sources in APA format. Quoted text should constitute no more than ten percent of your post.  Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

I NEED 250 WORDS. PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES.

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This section lists options that can be used to view responses. Expand All   Print View   Show Options  ResponsesResponses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. Sort by Response Sort by AuthorSort by Date/Time*Human extinctionTheresa Berger 12/13/2016 9:40:09 AM * Times are displayed in (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time