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

Author/Contributor(s):	Erwin, Douglas H
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	03/22/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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. [This book] 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 a the end of the Permian. Although full recovery took tens of millions of years, this most massive of mass extinctions was a powerful creative force, setting the stage for the development of life as we know it today"--