Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath (Cambridge Texts in Hist.of Philosophy)

Acknowledged authors Hallam, A., Wignall, P. B. wrote Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath (Cambridge Texts in Hist.of Philosophy) comprising 328 pages back in 1997. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0198549164 and 9780198549161. Since then Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath (Cambridge Texts in Hist.of Philosophy) textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

This is the first review of all the major mass extinctions in the history of life. It covers all groups of organisms - plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine - that have gone extinct alongside the geological and sedimentological evidence for environmental changes during the biotic crises. All proposed extinction mechanisms - climate change, meteorite impact, volcanisms - are critically assessed. The demise of the dinosaurs has been amply discussed, but this is the first time that this event has been put into the proper context of other extinction events.