Humans are curious, like the monkeys we use to be I suppose. By nature have always been fascinated by the past. Many feel that unlocking our past can open doors to the future. Our history is brief in comparison with that of the earth, but yet no claims can be made that we are close to understanding our own human existence, or the roads we took in the past which led us to where we are today. In that light it would be foolish that we could hope to understand what happened on earth before our arrival, yet people do… The stories Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs by: Stephen Jay Gould and that of Kathy A. Svitil Nubian D