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The idea of science fending off extinction requires some serious justification. At pre-industrial technology levels, none of today's biggest extinction threats would exist (high-tech war, singularity-class technology, climate change, etc.)
Note that we've never needed high tech to extinguish other species.
There are species we probably wouldn't have been able to make extinct without high tech. But we've almost never needed to deliberately make another species extinct at all, so we weren't trying all that hard.
We did do a pretty thorough job on the smallpox virus...
Yes, that's one of the very few exceptions.