Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves - Softcover

Benton, Michael J.

 
9780500298633: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500298637 ISBN 13: 9780500298633
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2026

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ExtinctionsBeginning with the oldest, paleontologist Michael J. Benton takes us through the "big five" die outs: the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the Late Devonian, apparently brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-­Permian, also known as the Great Dying, which wiped out over 90 percent of all life on Earth; the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event; and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes, and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, and how life survived, adapted, and evolved.Extinctions

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Michael J. Benton is head of the world--leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology, and When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time.

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A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth.

In this vast sweep of our Earth's history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to life as never before. Deploying the cutting-edge tools in biology, chemistry, physics and geology that are transforming our understanding of previous environmental cataclysms - including the incredible new discovery of a hitherto unknown extinction event - he uncovers not only their lethal effects but also the processes that brought about such l

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500298637
ISBN 13 
9780500298633
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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