Assertion: extinction's cause | /r/CapableOf | put finger
Facets:
value: on kind of fires
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: on an extinction trigger
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: And I would respond to that -- and this, again, is coming from Norman Myers, who has published a number of very interesting articles about the future of evolution -- with the fact that most mass extinctions occur when some [cause of] environmental degradation puts a finger on an extinction trigger and kind of fires away, and then, sooner or later, that finger on the trigger goes away, and the conditions that led to extinction stop, and you get this recovery fauna.