Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Douglas H. Erwin, Douglas H. Erwin (Preface by)Series:Princeton Science Library #37Publish date:2015-03-22Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691165653ISBN-10:691165653UPC:9780691165653Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Paleontology, Life Sciences, Earth SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD13B9SRT
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691165653ISBN-10:691165653UPC:9780691165653Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Paleontology, Life Sciences, Earth SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD13B9SRT
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.
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