Cosmic Genes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition

Wallis, Max K.

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Cosmic Genes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition

Max K. Wallis⁴

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It is proposed that genes coding for Aib-polypeptides arose early on in the K/T transition, presumed from the Earth’s accretion of interplanetary (comet) dust. Aib-fungi flourished because of the evolutionary advantage of novel antibiotics. The stress on Cretaceous biology led directly and indirectly to mass species extinctions, including many dinosaur species, in the epoch preceding the Chicxulub impact.

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Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Chandra Wickramasinghe
Centre for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS), University of California — San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Geoffrey Burbidge
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India
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Wallis, M.K. (2003). Cosmic Genes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition. In: Wickramasinghe, C., Burbidge, G., Narlikar, J. (eds) Fred Hoyle’s Universe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1605-5_30

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