Information About the Decline in Animal Groups During the First

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Essay

Information about the decline in animal groups during the first five mass extinctions was expressed as a percentage of animal families that went extinct.Can the graph shown below be used to determine the percentage of animal families lost during the current mass extinction? If so,what is the percentage of animal families that have gone extinct since 1500? If not,why not?

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