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Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
David M. Raup
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| #931271 in Books | 1992-11-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.60 x5.50l,.53 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Extinction|By Atheen|This is a delightfully well written book on the phenomenon of extinction, from the background rates of species death to the massive die-offs of the KT and other major extinction events. The author approaches the subject from a statistical/probabilities standpoint, looking at extinction as a continuum which is characterised, as he notes, by "long periods o|From Publishers Weekly|Raup takes up a cocktail-party science topic--Why do entire branches of life "suddenly" (in geologic time) disappear?--and gives it weight and validity. Despite the catchy title, Raup's presentation is plenty rigorous, drawing in just enou
This is the first major book to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of extinction studies. At the end of the journey, Raup has put forward the best science of the day to answer the question posed by the title: Bad genes or bad luck?
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 an...
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