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Actually, all six mass extinctions may have one very important thing in common: from the point of view of the vast bulk of life on the planet they are probably not mass extinctions at all.
Indeed, the changing socio-political and historical conditions determine origin, currency, and extinctions of words as well as their meanings.
Mathematics can help biologists grasp problems that are otherwise too big (the biosphere) or too small (molecular structure); too slow (macroevolution) or too fast (photosynthesis); too remote in time (early extinctions) or too remote in space (life at extremes on the earth and in space); too complex (the human brain) or too dangerous or unethical (epidemiology of infectious agents).
Now, there is no question that if current trends of habitat alteration and climate change continue then we will ultimately lose large numbers of species—diversity will drop—but this does not necessarily translate into a loss of abundance of life, and that is a big difference between now and previous mass extinctions.
For example, it has been suggested that climate change will cause substantial extinctions in the near future (Thomas et al.