When Life Nearly Died by Michael J. Benton
The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
A concise, engaging synthesis of Earth’s greatest biological crisis that uses fossil, sedimentary and geochemical evidence to show how catastrophic environmental change—intense volcanism, greenhouse warming, widespread ocean anoxia and acidification, and cascading ecosystem collapse—nearly wiped out complex marine and terrestrial life at the end of the Permian and produced a prolonged, uneven recovery in the Early Triassic; the book traces the patterns and causes preserved in the rock record, explains how ecosystems were reorganized, and draws lessons about the vulnerability of biodiversity to rapid global change.
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