Dinosaur extinction at peak diversity supports Raup's hypothesis

By scientific and blogospheric standards, this item is ancient news. But it remains sufficiently interesting to warrant notice. The spectacular extinction of the dinosaurs at the K-T boundary evidently occurred at peak diversity. This finding supports David Raup's position that extinction is more often a matter of bad luck than of bad genes. It also echoes David Tilman's findings regarding the fleeting nature of dominance in Habitat Destruction and the Extinction Debt.

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