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The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis - Hardcover

 
9780804722858: The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis

Synopsis

This book examines the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict over two competing theories to explain why, 65 million years ago, most life on earth-including the dinosaurs-perished.

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The science the protagonist pursue is alive with discovery, and their debates vibrate with conflict, right from the editor's opening chapter on the history of the arguments about competing extinction hypotheses and a host of other conflicts that the debates have spawned.

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