A central question in the theory of branching processes is the probability of ultimate extinction, where no individuals exist after some finite number of generations.

Simple economics would drive the expensive, balky and mechanically complex DC dynamos to their ultimate extinction.

Before the ultimate extinction of the human species, the relics are safely relocated to a mountain that stands between the two advancing bodies of ice.

This will show Moscow that the offensive ballistic missile is on a path to ultimate extinction.

Scientists fear the release may have led to the ultimate extinction of at least five fish species.

No, the Arkonides were not yet damned to ultimate extinction.

Lincoln said that the crisis would be reached and passed when slavery was put "in the course of ultimate extinction."

However, the quasispecies model does not predict the ultimate extinction of all but the fastest replicating sequence.

We've suspected that humanity was doomed to ultimate extinction since the middle of the nineteenth century.

Your joining or not joining the army does not lead directly to the ultimate extinction of the human species.