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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Revised edition)
Language: en
Pages: 487
Authors: Michael J. Benton
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-11 - Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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“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 balanced. Highly
Extinction
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Douglas H. Erwin
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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 catast
When Life Nearly Died
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Michael J. Benton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-01 - Publisher:

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Documents the mass extinction of nearly 90 percent of life during the Permian period, discussing what caused the disaster and recent scientific research regardi
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Annalee Newitz
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-14 - Publisher: Anchor

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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered b
Evolutionary Catastrophes
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: V. Courtillot
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Mass extinction and cataclysmic volcanic activity: will fascinate everyone interested in the history of life and death on our planet.