Paper: Did an Asteroid Shower Kick-Start the Great Diversification?

Science 21 December 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5858, p. 1854
DOI: 10.1126/science.318.5858.1854


News of the Week
EVOLUTION:
Did an Asteroid Shower Kick-Start the Great Diversification?
Richard A. Kerr
This week, a team of geologists and paleontologists reports that a collision
in the asteroid belt showered Earth with debris just when the Ordovician
diversification was getting started, suggesting a cause-and-effect
connection.

Source: Science
ce.318.5858.1854
Comment:
Sorry, that's all I could get. But it looks interesting and someone is
bound to have some more, or maybe an article on the paper?

Posted by
Robert Karl Stonjek


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