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• ISBN: 0804722854 (acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 9780804722858 (acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 0804722862 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 9780804722865 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• Physical Description: xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-348) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What the impact/volcanism/mass-extinction debates are about / W. Glen -- How science works in the mass-extinction debates / W. Glen -- The impact hypothesis and popular science : conditions and consequences of interdisciplinary debate / E.S. Clemens -- Impacts and extinctions : science or dogma? / D.J. McLaren -- What I did with my research career : or how research or biodiversity yielded data on extinction / J.J. Sepkoski, Jr. -- The extinction debates : a view from the trenches / D.M. Raup -- Hazards from space : comets in history and science / S.V.M. Clube -- The liturgy of science : chaos, number, and the meaning of evolution / H.R. Shaw -- Concepts and the nature of selection by extinction : is generalization possible? / L.M. Van Valen -- Uniformitarianism vs. catastrophism in the extinction debate / K.J. Hsü -- Mass extinctions : fact or fallacy? / J.C. Briggs -- On the mass-extinction debates : an interview with William A. Clemens / conducted and compiled by W. Glen -- On the mass-extinction debates : an interview with Stephen Jay Gould / conducted and compiled by W. Glen -- Epilogue : a panel

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Extinction (Biology)
Mass extinctions.
Paleontology > Methodology.