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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Princeton Science Library) - Softcover

Erwin, Douglas H.

 
9780691165653: Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Princeton Science Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691165653 ISBN 13: 9780691165653
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2015

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Some 250 million years ago, the Earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Extinction is a paleontological mystery story that provides a fascinating overview of the evidence for and against a whole host of hypotheses concerning this cataclysmic event that unfolded at the end of the Permian - and set the stage for the development of life as we know it today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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"Douglas Erwin blends careful scholarship and graceful prose in this authoritative elucidation of Earth's greatest mass extinction. Although framed in terms of hypotheses and their tests, Erwin's story unfolds as a gripping who-done-it for the ages."--Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, author of Life on a Young Planet

"Douglas Erwin is the world's leading expert on the end-Permian extinction. This book will be the standard reference on this crucial event in the history of life. It is a wonderful example of science in action."--Richard Bambach, Virginia Tech

"This book provides an up-to-date review and critical appraisal of all we know about the end-Permian mass extinction, a subject that has drawn much popular attention. Complementing its solid scholarship, its friendly style enables educated general readers to get to grips with all the current debates."--Paul Wignall, University of Leeds, author of Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermaths

"In conversational prose, Douglas Erwin provides a useful roadmap to a complex scientific subject--an up-to-date treatment of the end-Permian extinction."--Michael J. Foote, University of Chicago

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691165653
ISBN 13 
9780691165653
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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