Which of the following is TRUE?
A) Natural selection always favors complexity and a larger body size.
B) Until recent history, extinctions have always happened gradually and on a small scale.
C) Most organisms present early in Earth's prehistory were more complex than modern organisms.
D) Species on Earth today are just a fraction of all species that ever lived.
E) The number of species existing at one time has decreased throughout history.
Answer: D
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