Comments on: Book review – The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions

By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:56 +0000

[…] of our atmosphere), the interactions mostly run the other way with Prothero prominently discussing the big five mass extinctions. These often resulted from rapid changes to Earth’s oceans and atmosphere, with episodes of […]

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By: Book review – The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, & Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:37:40 +0000

[…] cells die, including apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis. He mentions death at its grandest, i.e. mass extinctions, and some of the ideas about how we came to be the last ape standing. He mentions research on […]

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By: Book review – The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:56:33 +0000

[…] oxygen is the only example given of a non-external catastrophe, but there is no mention of the big five mass extinctions, volcanism, ocean acidification, etc. It was instructive to return to my review of […]

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By: Book review – The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:14:54 +0000

[…] the relative contributions of the asteroid and Deccan Trap volcanism, which Brannen did recently in The Ends of the World. In popular books since then, various palaeontologists have come out in favour or against the idea […]

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By: Book review – Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 27 May 2022 11:45:28 +0000

[…] about to get a lot warmer. The Triassic-Jurassic boundary was a time of upheaval and marks one of the five great mass extinctions. The supercontinent Pangaea split up and the Atlantic ocean was born. This process was accompanied […]

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By: Book review – Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:22:29 +0000

[…] when you take a plant perspective. For example, palaeontology has accustomed us to the idea of five mass extinctions, but, as one paper puts it plainly, the plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction […]

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By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:49:08 +0000

[…] Long-term hibernation and burrowing could offer one explanation for how mammals survived the mass-extinction after the meteor impact during the K-Pg […]

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By: Book review – Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:15:06 +0000

[…] historian David Sepkoski shows that this was not always the prevailing belief. Rather than a book discussing mass extinction, Catastrophic Thinking is more meta than that, discussing how we have been discussing mass […]

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By: Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:13:03 +0000

[…] Defense Officer Lindley Johnson. The chapter on volcanism covers the usual suspects, such as the Siberian Traps, the Toba volcano, the Tambora volcano, and the looming threat of the Yellowstone […]

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By: Book review – Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:07:08 +0000

[…] of the dust kicked up by the famous 1980 Alvarez et al. Science paper that proposed the Cretaceous ended with a bang. And while scientists were busy arguing, Shoemaker discovered an asteroid on a […]

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