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Humans are causing widespread environmental changes that are forcing other species to evolve or go extinct. Elephants in Africa and Sri Lanka have evolved to have fewer or no tusks due to poaching for ivory, allowing tuskless elephants to survive and reproduce more. Woolly mammoths went extinct due to overhunting by humans, removing fur from the gene pool. Grey wolves nearly went extinct after farmers killed many for preying on livestock. Humans have also changed ecosystems like Lake Urmia in Iran, forcing
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