When Life Nearly Died by Michael J. Benton

She loved to laugh and entertain… “Sing Along with Millie.” Joseph’s Parish, she wrote and directed many comic performances. For 30 years she was the organist at the Rotary Club and received the Paul Harris Fellow Award as well as the Woman of the Year Award from the Orleans County Office for the Aging.Īs an active member for 53 years of the Catholic Daughters and St.

She was a musician and played piano for many community events. Jerome’s Hospital in Batavia and for 40 years at the former Arnold Gregory Hospital in Albion. Millie was a graduate of the US Army Cadet Nurse Corps and was employed as a Registered Nurse at St.

She is predeceased by husband Harmon, daughter Patricia King, 2nd husband Frank Gavenda, and step-children Kathy Gavenda and Steven Gavenda. She was born in Darien Center, NY on Octoto Ellis and Martha (Mamott) Getman. 46 b/w illustrations.ALBION – Mildred “Millie” Ries Gavenda, 96, passed peacefully into God’s hands on May 5, 2023. The implications of our understanding of crises in the past for the current biodiversity crisis are also presented in detail. Their working methods are vividly described and explained, and the current disputes are revealed. From field camps in Greenland and Russia to the laboratory bench, When Life Nearly Died involves geologists, paleontologists, environmental modelers, geochemists, astronomers, and experts on biodiversity and conservation. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating through the 1990s and into the new millennium, and Michael Benton gives his verdict at the very end. This book documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent rekindling of the idea of catastrophism.

Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed, including saber-toothed reptiles and their rhinoceros-sized prey on land, as well as vast numbers of fish and other species in the sea. Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living.

It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference.' -James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to Gaia 'Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure.

When Life Nearly Died by Michael J. Benton