Assertion: past extinction | /r/CapableOf | affect subsequent course of evolution
Facets:
value: greatly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The past extinctions, particularly the mass extinctions, greatly affected the subsequent course of evolution, because the survivors were not a random representative small set of the existing biota at the time of the extinction, but they had certain features, and those determine the starting point of the next group of species.