Extinction merry-go-round | Helder, M. 2002.
CS Dialogue 29(2):6-7. CELD ID 14579Abstract Fashions come and go. Everyone knows that. Sooner or later today's "cool" youth find themselves wearing the "geeky" designs that their parents had modeled so many years before. While modern youngsters formerly declared they would not be caught "dead" in such outfits, now that the recycled designs are the new "in-thing," youth happily look much as their parents did. It's fun to laugh at these quirks and foibles of human nature. But fashions are not the only thing that we recycle. Scientific explanations have a habit of reappearing just as frequently as old discarded fashions. Explanations concerning mass extinctions are a case in point.
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