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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Paul B. Wignall
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Description for The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 color illus. 2 halftones. 11 line illus. BIC Classification: RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own firsthand experiences conducting field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged and calamitous period of environmental ... Read more
Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own firsthand experiences conducting field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged and calamitous period of environmental ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691142098
SKU
V9780691142098
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About Paul B. Wignall
Paul B. Wignall is professor of paleoenvironments at the University of Leeds.
Reviews for The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 "[Wignall] presents a sound examination of an 80-million-year span, which began nearly 260 million years ago, that is considered by scientists to have been the most extreme extinction event in Earth's history... [A] great example of scientific sleuthing."
Publishers Weekly "[An] excellent introduction to the latest thinking about this key period in Earth's ... Read more
Publishers Weekly "[An] excellent introduction to the latest thinking about this key period in Earth's ... Read more