Which of the following factors is NOT true about the patterns of animal diversity that we see in the fossil record over the course of evolution of life on earth: Limited impacts on diversity have resulted from catastrophic events such as volcanism and meteor impacts Fossils and transitional forms have been found in the fossil record connecting fish to early mammals The largest extinction events such as the end Permian extinction are thought to have wiped out more than 80 percent of the genera in some groups Factors leading to background extinction are often different from those likely to cause the major mass extinction events During the Cambrian period many diverse animal body plans are recovered for the first time in the fossil record
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