https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/population-biology/ Recent content in Population Biology on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:58 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/deciphering-mass-extinctions/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:58 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/deciphering-mass-extinctions/ <p>What the planet&rsquo;s past mass extinctions tell us about the future of life on Earth</p> <p>The crash-landing of a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid 65 million years ago made for a very bad day for dinosaurs &mdash; or one very lucky day for mammals.</p>