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factor for extinction is large body size.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">“One secure prediction is that future
environmental conditions will almost certainly differ from those in the past.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">“Diversity will almost certainly rebound
after the current extinction event; however, it may be composed of species
descended from a different, as yet unknown, subset of lineages from those that
dominate now, and humans will likely not be included among them.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Davies, et al. “Phylogenetic trees and
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