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Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions
This is a book about the
dramatic periods in the
Earth's history called mass
extinctions - short periods
(by geological standards)
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Rivers in Time
-- BioscienceSeveral times
in the distant past,
catastrophic extinctions
have swept the Earth,
causing more than half of
all species -- from
single-celled organisms to
awe-inspiring behemoths --
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
"The focus is the most
severe mass extinction known
in earth's
history….The science
on which the book is based
is up-to-date, thorough, and
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Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
Some 250 million years ago,
the earth suffered the
greatest biological crisis
in its history. Around 95%
of all living species died
out--a global catastrophe
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward demonstrates in UNDER A GREEN SKY that the ancient past is not just of academic concern. Everyone has heard about how an asteroid did in the ... > read more -
No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species
In No Turning Back, Richard Ellis makes a survey of animals that have disappeared through anthropogenic or other means. "Everybody knows what extinction is," he writes, but theories of why it ... > read more -
The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science
Nemesis is the name given by scientists to a (theoretical) small companion star to our sun. Every 26 million years, Nemesis's orbit brings it close enough to the sun to bombard our solar system with ... > read more -
Future Evolution
Everyone wonders what tomorrow holds, but what will the real future look like? Not decades or even hundreds of years from now, but thousands or millions of years into the future. Will our species ... > read more -
Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, ... > read more -
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
This book tells the story of human evolution, the epic of Homo sapiens and its colorful precursors and relatives. The story begins in Africa, six to seven million years ago, and encompasses twenty ... > read more -
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
For 65 million years dinosaurs ruled the Earth - until a deadly asteroid forced their extinction. But what accounts for the incredible longevity of dinosaurs? A renowned scientist now provides a ... > read more -
Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining ... > read more -
Soils of the Past
It is 10 years since publication of the first edition of soils of the past. In that time the subject of paleopedology has grown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream of geological ... > read more -
The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science)
Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to ... > read more
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