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9780521114899

Extinctions in the History of Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521114899

  • ISBN10:

    0521114896

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-25
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Recognition of a biodiversity crisis, and the development of new analytical and geological techniques for studying extinction, have increased our appreciation of global change in recent years. Paul Taylor looks at the implications for plants, animals and microbes, and discusses the role of extinction in evolution. His useful reference brings together key findings from the current debate concerning extinction for students, researchers and the interested general reader.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
Preface
Extinction and the fossil record
Extinctions in life's earliest history
Mass extinctions in plant evolution
The beginning of the Mesozoic: 70 million years of environmental stress and extinction
Causes of mass extinctions
The evolutionary role of mass extinctions: disaster, recovery and something in-between
Glossary
Index
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