Palaeodiversifications: Mass extinctions, "Clocks", and other worlds

Geobios

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 165-174

  Conway Morris, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Extraterrestrial life; Fossil record; Mass extinctions; Molecular "clocks"

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; EXOBIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MASS EXTINCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0032781111     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(99)80028-X     Document Type: Article

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