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TAYLOR, P. D. (ed.) 2004. Extinctions in the History of Life.

xii + 191 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £40.00, US $70.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 84224 7.

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Species comeand species go and as palaeontologists are well aware by far the majority of species that have ever lived are extinct. How, why and when this has happened in the geological past is a matter of great interest. In Extinctions in the History of Life six international experts on different aspects of the fossil record review questions of extinction from their own perspectives.

These range from Schopf’s overview of ‘Extinctions in life’s earliest history’ through Bottjer’s ‘The beginning of the Mesozoic’ following the Permo-Triassic extinction to Wignall on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]