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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition

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Description for Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition Paperback. .
Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that covered an area as large as the continental United States; others argue for sudden changes in ocean levels and chemistry, including burps of methane gas; and still others cite the impact of an extraterrestrial object, similar to what caused the dinosaurs' extinction. Extinction is a paleontological ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Princeton Science Library
Condition
New
Weight
292g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691165653
SKU
V9780691165653
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99-20

About Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin is senior scientist and curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He began researching the end-Permian mass extinction in the early 1980s and has traveled many times to China, South Africa, and Europe seeking its causes.

Reviews for Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 Theories and mysteries can be dispelled with good data from the geologic record, and Erwin (a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History) offers an authoritative account of the search for these data and for the cause of the extinction... Extinction provides a great reference for researchers and ... Read more

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