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Raup, David M

 
9780393309270: Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck
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ISBN 10: 0393309274 ISBN 13: 9780393309270
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

Sinopsis

In the geological record, there are five major mass extinctions the "Big Five." The most famous happened at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when the dinosaurs and two-thirds of all marine animal species were wiped out, opening the door for the age of mammals and the rise of Homo Sapiens. Using this example as a springboard, David M. Raup leaps into an egaging discussion of the theories, assumptions, and difficulties associated with the science of species extinction. Woven is along the way are stories of the trilobite eye, tropical reefs, flying reptiles, and the fate of the heath hen on Martha's Vineyard, a very modern extinction.

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David M. Raup is the Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor and a statistical paleontologist at the University of Chicago.

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

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Editorial
W. W. Norton & Company
Año de publicación
1992
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393309274
ISBN 13 
9780393309270
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
230
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