The End of Evolution, Peter Ward

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The
End of
Evolution
On Mass Extinctions
and the Preservation
of Biodiversity
Peter
W a r d
BANTAM
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BOOKS
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The End of Evolution
A Bantam Book / July
1994
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the
following illustrations:
On page 9, from
Earth and Life Through Time,
2d ed.; on page
36, from
The Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society;
on page 46, by Gregory S. Paul; on page 48, by Gregory
S. Paul; on page 83, from
American Scientist.
All of the above
originally appeared in
Earth and Life Through Time
by Steven
M. Stanley. Copyright © 1989 by W.H. Freeman and Company.
Reprinted with permission.
All rights reserved.
Copyright ©
1994
by Peter Ward
Book design by Charles B. Hames
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Data
Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949-
The end of evolution : on mass extinctions and the preservation
of biodiversity I Peter Ward,
p.
cm.
Includes
index.
ISBN
0-SS3-08812-2
1. Extinction (Biology)
2. Biological diversity.
I. Title.
QE721.2.E97W37
1994
S7S'.7—dc20
93-31802
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