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Nature Geoscience 1, 18 - 19 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.63
Subject Category: Palaeontology
Palaeontology: Meteoritic spur to life?
Florentin Paris1
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Florentin Paris is at the University of Rennes, Geosciences, UMR 6118 of the CNRS, 35042 Rennes-cedex, France.
e-mail: florentin.paris@univ-rennes1.fr
Abstract
From about 470 million years ago, the Middle Ordovician period witnessed a rapid increase in biodiversity. This explosion in numbers of species is almost perfectly contemporaneous with an increased frequency of meteorite impacts.
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