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A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory is innocent until proven guilty...Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

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Mass extinction is box office, a darling of the popular press, the subject of cover stories and television documentaries, many books, even a rock song... At the end of 1989, The Associated Press designated mass extinction as one of the "Top 10 Scientific Advances of the Decade." Everybody has weighed in, from the Economist to National Geographic.

David M. Raup

Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.

David M. Raup

David M. Raup

David M. Raup

Born: April 24, 1933

Died: July 9, 2015 (aged 82)

Bio: David M. Raup was a University of Chicago paleontologist. Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski.

Known for:

Extinction: Bad Genes Or Bad Luck? (1991)
Principles of paleontology (1971)
The Nemesis Affair (1986)
De l'extinction des espèces

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