Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs

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Sex , Drugs , Disasters , and the Extinction of Dinosaurs

The starts with the debate on the definition of Science . Stephen Jay Gould argues that science is a fruitful mode of inquiry ' and not a list of conclusions , and that the conclusions are the consequences not the main idea . Gould is disappointed with the fact that people tend to mix theories from methods . He then moves on stating three theories about how the dinosaurs became extinct - Sex , drugs , and disasters Gould also makes it clear that the

extinction of dinosaurs is not a separate problem all together , a lot of species also became extinct . The doctor has a point , it just so happened that dinosaurs are popular species thanks mostly to Hollywood

Sex - because one theory states that even if the dinosaurs can tolerate increased temperatures , the testes of male dinosaurs can only function at a limit , when the temperatures became too hot , the dinosaurs became sterile . Drugs - another theory about the extinction of dinosaurs is the overdose theory , it states that dinosaurs suffered from poisoning because they couldn 't taste the bitterness in these toxic plants nor they have the liver to process them . Disasters - the most popular theory is the one which involves a comet or meteor colliding with earth and the dust clouds it create blocked of the sun , dropping the earth 's temperature and rendering photosynthesis impossible . What the author is trying to say is , all these are theories and need further study...