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How is adaptive radiation and extinction related?

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As an example take the dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago. At that time most, if not all mammals, were shrew like creatures. The adaptive radiation of the mammals into all the ecological niches the dinosaurs vacated and their extreme variation from that point was adaptive radiation writ large.

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