book: Extinction by Douglas H. Erwin
satya - Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:27:53 PM
Background
Douglas H. Erwin is senior scientist and curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. His research into the end-Permian mass extinction has taken him to China, South Africa and Europe and informs his book Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Princeton University Press, 2006).