What Effect of Mass Extinctions Is Described by the Expression

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Essay

What effect of mass extinctions is described by the expression "dead clade walking"?

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Definitions:

Parents

Guardians or caretakers who are responsible for raising and nurturing children, providing them with emotional and physical support.

Twin Studies

Twin studies are research methodologies that compare the similarity between monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins to understand the influence of genetics and environment on traits and behaviors.

Heritability

A measure of how much of the variation in a trait within a population can be attributed to genetic differences.

Nonadditive Effects

Phenomena where the combined effect of two or more factors is not simply the sum of their separate effects, indicating interaction between them.