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For decades, researchers have treated mass extinction events as global ecological reset buttons, with the fittest survivors taking over. But according to new research, mass extinctions are not the great wipe-out we thought they were. What does this mean for the mass extinction that we currently seem to be causing? Let’s take a look.

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1171

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