ANSWER:
Its because mother nature tells us herself!
its just like predicting when rhinos will go instinct:
imagine people killing 2 rhinos a week or every two weeks and theres only 500-1000, you can predict that in prob 3-5 years they'll go instinct
so its just like that and they have much higher technology now that it'll just give them the answer without putting much effort into it.
~batmans wife dun dun dun....