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A lively, informal narrative by a renowned paleontologist introduces readers to the scientific research behind the theory that dinosaurs were killed off by the effects of a shower of comets. Illustrated.
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David M. Raup is the Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor and a statistical paleontologist at the University of Chicago.
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In recounting the "Nemesis Affair," Raup aims to elucidate the scientific and journalistic climate in which the idea was born. The story begins with a 1980 paper in Science implicating impact of an extraterrestrial body with Earth as the cause of dinosaur extinction. It proceeds through the later hypothesis that mass extinctions are time-periodic and astrophysicists' suggestions (including "Nemesis," an undiscovered small companion star to our sun) to explain the periodicity. All the hypotheses are still under debate. Raup, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and a participant in the "Nemesis Affair," is a clear-eyed and frank, if not completely unbiased, reporter. His book makes good reading for anyone curious about "Nemesis" or about science. Margery C. Coombs, Zoology Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0393304094
- ISBN 13 9780393304091
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