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The Demise of the Dinosaurs and the Rise of the Mammals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

J. David Archibald
J. David Archibald*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182
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The demise of the dinosaurs some 66.4 million years ago (MYA) has come to embody for scientist and layman alike the concept of extinction, especially that of mass extinction. So pervasive has this idea become that no book, whether specializing on dinosaurs or representing a general overview of biology or geology, concludes without dealing with dinosaur extinction. In the context of the Phanerozoic history of life, this preoccupation with dinosaur extinction is probably not warranted because it may tell us little about extinction or evolutionary processes in general.

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Research Article
Information
Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 2: The Age of Dinosaurs , 1989 , pp. 162 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 Paleontological Society 

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