Why didn’t the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth also lead to the extinction of all other living species?
In: Planetary Science
‘Why evolution is true’ goes into great detail about this – it’s quite interesting and basically species that burrowed for example had a higher chance of survivability (also aquatic species) – there are some good arguments suggesting that without this event humans would not have evolved.
Edit: it may have been ‘A series of fortunate events’ by Sean B Carroll actually..both great reads.
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