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Keeping time with mass extinctions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

David Jablonski
David Jablonski*
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Paleobiology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 1984 , pp. 139 - 145
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