Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Extinction and the fossil record
- 2 Extinctions in life's earliest history
- 3 Mass extinctions in plant evolution
- 4 The beginning of the Mesozoic: 70 million years of environmental stress and extinction
- 5 Causes of mass extinctions
- 6 The evolutionary role of mass extinctions: disaster, recovery and something in-between
- Glossary
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Extinction and the fossil record
- 2 Extinctions in life's earliest history
- 3 Mass extinctions in plant evolution
- 4 The beginning of the Mesozoic: 70 million years of environmental stress and extinction
- 5 Causes of mass extinctions
- 6 The evolutionary role of mass extinctions: disaster, recovery and something in-between
- Glossary
- Index
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- Extinctions in the History of Life , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004