Re: S and L Scandal

[jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jere H. Lipps)]

>Can somebody please post the reference to the original paper on the
>Signor-Lipps effect, as well as any other relevant papers?
>Thanks!
>Casey Burns


Signor, P. W., and Lipps, J. H. 1982.  Sampling bias, gradual extinction
patterns and catastrophes in the fossil record:  p. 291-296.  In Geol. Soc.
America Special Paper 190.

You might look at Bill Glen's book:  Mass-Extinction Debates:  How science
works in a crisis:  Stanford U. Press.  1994.  For some interesting
comments on S/L and the whole extinction business.


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