Astrobiology (general)

Romer's Gap Confirmed

By Keith Cowing
November 2, 2006

Peter Ward from NAI’s Alumni Team at the University of Washington and his collaborators have a new paper out in PNAS providing supportive evidence for Romer’s Gap. Their results link this gap in vertebrate terrestrialization with a low atmospheric oxygen interval. This paper supports Ward’s new book on the evolution of effective respiratory systems, entitled “Out of Thin Air.” [Source: NAI Newsletter]

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