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David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book is Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. (February 2022)
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