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

from dandelionroots

Deliberates the evidence for possible causes of the end Permian extinction and compares it to more well known extinction events. This book is actually quite interesting, now that I've had time to process it. While reading I felt bogged down with all the information - it is probably as well organi...

from Shrike58

Some books are like a rising and breaking wave, as the author musters his information and comes to a climax. This book is more like a wave that breaks before it reaches shore, as Erwin examines what we know about the end of the Permian Age, and how this explains the rapid depletion of then-existi...

from Gord.Barker

Extinction deals with the Permian Triassic extinction event around 251.4 million years ago. At this point in the development of the Earth, around 95% of all living species died out in a very short amount of time (geologically speaking). This has always been a mystery to geologists and paleontolog...

from Gord.Barker

Extinction deals with the Permian Triassic extinction event around 251.4 million years ago. At this point in the development of the Earth, around 95% of all living species died out in a very short amount of time (geologically speaking). This has always been a mystery to geologists and paleontolog...