Re: acid Sig-Lipps

[jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jere H. Lipps)]

Johnny Waters and I agree but misunderstand  (more electronic diarrhea)
>
>I disagree that understanding the recovery from extinction is less exciting
>or timely than understanding extinction dynamics.

It is in fact very exciting to paleontologists!  I meant the public and
TIME Magazine when I said it was "not as exciting or Time-ly".  I urge and
have urged in the past that recoveries be examined in closer detail, like
what Johnny did.  We need the same thing after the P/T, K/T, etc.




Jere H. Lipps
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Director, Museum of Paleontology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-9006 fax 642-1822
jlipps@ucmp1.berkeley.edu