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The possible influence of impacts of celestial bodies on the evolution of life on Earth has been brought to the attention of the scientific community in 1980, with the publication of a famous paper by Alvarez et al. (1980) on the event that caused the mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary, 65 million years ago.
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Carusi, A., Carusi, A., Pozio, L. (2007). May Land Impacts Induce a Catastrophic Collapse of Civil Societies?. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Rickman, H. (eds) Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_25
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