Author: Glen, William; editor:
Title: The Mass Extinction Debates : How Science Works in a Crisis
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1994. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,370 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: W. Glen "What the Impact / Volcanism / Mass- Extinction Debates Are About"; W. Glen "How Science Works in the Mass- Extinction Debates"; E.S. Clemens "The Impact Hypothesis & Popular Science:Conditions & Consequences of Interdisciplinary Debate"; D.J. McLaren " Impacts & Extinctions: Science or Dogma?"; J.J. Sepkoski Jr "What I Did With My Research Career: Or How Research on Biodiversity Yielded Data on Extinction"; D.M. Raup "The Extinction Debates: A View from the Trenches"; S.V.M. Clube "Hazards from Space: Comets in History & Science"; H.R. Shaw "The Liturgy of Science: Chaos, Number, & the Meaning of Evolution"; L.M. Van Valen "Concepts & the Nature of Selection by Extinction: Is Generalization Possible?"; K.J. Hsü "Uniformitarianism vs. Catastrophism in the Extinction Debate"; J.C. Briggs "Mass Extinctions: Fact or Fallacy?"; W.Glen "On the Mass-Extinction Debates: An Interview with Stephen Jay Gould"; etc.

Keywords: Palaeontology, History of Science, Scientific Debates, Paleontology, Mass Extinctions, Evolutionary, Biology Evolution, Catastrophism, Extinction