The suggestion that the disappearence of species from the surface of the Earth has been periodic has stimulated contradictory explanations and also a diversity of ways of dealing with information.
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Maddox, J. Extinctions by catastrophe?. Nature 308, 685 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/308685a0
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