The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a CrisisWilliam Glen Stanford University Press, 1994 - 370 páginas This book is the first to examine the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict for a decade over two competing hypotheses for the cause of the mass extinction, some 65 million years ago, of most of life on earth, including the dinosaurs. These papers - by historians, sociologists, philosophers, and participating scientists - provide an exceptional opportunity to observe firsthand the workings of science that in quieter times are hidden from view. The book concludes with an overarching discussion by a balanced panel of embattled scientists and scholars. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Are About | 7 |
How Science Works in the MassExtinction Debates | 39 |
Conditions | 92 |
Science or Dogma? | 121 |
Or How Research | 132 |
A View from the Trenches | 145 |
Comets in History and Science | 152 |
Chaos Number and | 170 |
Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism in | 217 |
Fact or Fallacy? | 230 |
Stephen Jay Gould | 253 |
A Panel Discussion on the MassExtinction | 268 |
Endnotes | 289 |
Index | 351 |
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