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Science 31 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5769, pp. 1868 - 1869
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125756
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Crime Scene Investigation--Permian

Andrew M. Bush

Extinction
How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
by Douglas H. Erwin
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 306 pp. $24.95, £15.95. ISBN 0-691-00524-9.
The author discusses the end-Permian extinction--"the mother of mass extinctions"--and the numerous explanations that have been offered for it.
The reviewer is at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA. E-mail: andrew.bush{at}uconn.edu

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