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A Rhetorical Analysis Of The TED Talk By Lauren Sallan

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The TED Talk “How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction” was presented by Lauren Sallan, who is a paleobiologist. The purpose of this talk was to explain to the viewers how the earliest species survived mass extinction and evolution, and how this brought us to where we are today. She focused on the benefits of mass extinction, and how species evolved to be able to stay alive longer. The speaker did meet her goal of explaining how mass extinction and evolution work together throughout history to keep species alive.
In Sallan’s TED Talk, all her arguments did relate to the objective that species can survive mass extinction and “win” at evolution. For example, Sallan talks about how the 96% of fish species that died during the Hangenberg
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