The Great Dying/Cosmic Catastrophe Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution - Hardcover

Hsu, Kenneth J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151369046 ISBN 13: 9780151369041

Publisher: Harcourt, 1986

Synopsis

Proposes that a catastrophic collision between Earth and an enormous cosmic body, followed by months of darkness, soaring temperatures, poisoned air, and a dead ocean, caused the extinction of the dinosaurs sixty-five-million years ago

About this title

From Library Journal:

Debate has raged for almost a decade on the theory that the impact of an extraterrestrial object caused extinction of the dinosaurs. In this very personal account Hsu, a geologist whose books include The Mediterranean Was a Desert, reviews the diverse threads that led him to support the bolide theory. Sedimentation rates, carbon and oxygen isotopes, iridium anomalies, magnetic reversals, marine-terrestrial correlations, and planktonic turnover are all deciphered, and a comet is found to be responsible. Hsu goes on to criticize the theory of Natural Selection, linking it to political-sociological philosophies and events at the turn of the century, and advocating instead a theory of chance and catastrophe drawn from the philosophy of China. His arguments on this topic are unconvincing. Nevertheless, informed readers and specialists alike will find much of interest in this book. Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Biology Dept., Western New England Coll., Springfield, Mass.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0151369046
• ISBN 13: 9780151369041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292