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by Tony Hallam (Author) "When the subject of extinctions in the geological past comes up, nearly everyone's thoughts turn to dinosaurs ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press (13 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198524978
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198524977
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 12 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Bench Mark Against Bias of Further Reading, 6 Jul 2009
This review is from: Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The causes of mass extinctions (Paperback)
I purchased a series of books around this subject some specific and some general. I am glad that, by luck, I read this book first. It is not as entertaining as the others but gives a balanced and well written explanation of the tools and techniques used to test and reject hypothesis in these areas of research covering huge time spans. Although I am not an expert in this area I found the explanations precise and readable. It puts the other books I am now reading into perspective and allows the reader to make a reasonable judgement as to the bias being used to place one theory before another. The book does not really give any definitive conclusion other than stating how the science is used and in part extrapolated. It was just what I needed to give me a balanced view of the other materials I was researching.
examples of teh other books I am reading are as follows.The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's historyFrozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice AgesThe Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our FutureWhen Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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