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Ted Nield
Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite
Hay Festival 2011,
470 million years ago, a stupendous collision in the Asteroid Belt bombarded the Earth with meteorites of all sizes. A revolutionary idea is emerging that the resulting ecological disturbance may have been responsible for the single greatest increase in biological diversity since the origin of complex life.
