Book ID: CBB000078920

The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis (1994)

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Glen, William (Editor)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xiv + 370 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Glen, William: What the impact/volcanism/mass-extinction debates are about. Glen, William: How science works in the mass-extinction debates. Clemens, Elisabeth S.: The impact hypothesis and popular science: Conditions and consequences of interdisciplinary debate. McLaren, Digby J.: Impacts and extinctions: Science or dogma? Sepkoski, J. John, Jr.: What I did with my research career: Or how research on biodiversity yielded data on extinction. Raup, David M.: The extinction debates: A view from the trenches. Clube, S.V.M.: Hazards from space: Comets in history and science. Shaw, Herbert R.: The liturgy of science: Chaos, number, and the meaning of evolution. Van Valen, Leigh M.: Concepts and the nature of selection by extinction: Is generalization possible? Hsü, Kenneth J.: Uniformitarianism vs. catastrophism in the extinction debate. Briggs, John C.: Mass extinctions: Fact or fallacy? Glen, William: On the mass-extinction debates: An interview with William A. Clemens. Glen, William: On the mass-extinction debates: An interview with Stephen Jay Gould.


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Review Forrester, J. (1995) Review of "The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis". Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 267-69). unapi

Review Hallam, A. (1994) Review of "The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis". Nature (p. 296). unapi

Review Grantham, T.A. (1999) Review of "The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis". Biology and Philosophy (pp. 143-50). unapi

Review Lewenstein, B.V. (1995) Review of "The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 356-57). unapi

Review Jones, D.L. (1995) Review of "The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis". Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society (pp. 105-6). unapi

Review Oldroyd, D. (1994) Review of "The mass-extinction debates: How science works in a crisis". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 166-70). unapi

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Mayo, Dwight Eugene
Lockwood, G. Wesley
Lewis, David Lanier
Weiss, Kenneth M.
Waters, C. Kenneth
Van Helden, Albert
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Uranus
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19th century
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