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