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Extinction is here to stay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Karl W. Flessa and
David Jablonski
Karl W. Flessa
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
David Jablonski
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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This summer's meeting season saw five gatherings devoted specifically to the topic of extinction: Chicago's Field Museum symposium in May (see Diamond 1983); a field conference to examine the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in Montana; a symposium on molluscan extinction at the American Malacological Union meeting in Seattle; a special session at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in St. Louis; and a research conference on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff (see also Lewin 1983a,b,c). Several recent books consider the topic (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981; Nitecki 1981; Silver and Schultz 1982; Martin and Klein, 1984) and plans are underway to publish the papers presented at the Field Museum, Seattle, and Flagstaff meetings. Our review of the topic is based principally on the themes explored at the St. Louis and Flagstaff meetings.

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Paleobiology , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , Fall 1983, pp. 315 - 321
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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