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mass extinctions  

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  • Unlike an extinction, which affects a single species, a mass extinction is the large-scale elimination of multiple species caused by catastrophic global events. There have been five mass extinctions in geological time. [Source: Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture; Extinctions, Mass]

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