He has supervised more than 70 PhD students. He founded the MSc in Palaeobiology at Bristol in 1996, from which more than 450 students have graduated. Benton, Oxford University Press Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2008. Michael has written engaging books for children on the theme of dinosaurs, as well as a significant number of palaeontology textbooks for university students. A key theme is the Permo-Triassic mass extinction, the largest mass extinction of all time, which took place over 250 million years ago, where he investigates how life was able to recover from such a devastating event. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Dinosaurs Rediscovered, and When Life Nearly Died. Benton OBE is head of the world-leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. This approach has revolutionised our understanding of major questions, including the relative roles of internal and external drivers on the history of life, whether diversity reaches saturation, the significance of mass extinctions, and how major clades radiate. Product Details About the Author Table of Contents Product Details About the Author Michael J. He has led in integrating data from living and fossil organisms to generate phylogenies - solutions to the question of how major groups originated and diversified through time. Michael Benton is a palaeontologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the history of life, particularly concerning how biodiversity changes through time.
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