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Rare Earth

Peter Douglas Ward

  • 334 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2000
  • 2 editions
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1 About this book

"While it is widely believed that complex life is common, even widespread, throughout the billions of stars and galaxies of our Universe, astrobiologists Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee argue that advanced life may, in fact, be very rare, perhaps even unique.".

Good for readers who want: science, astronomy, and popular science.

  • Exobiology
  • Science
  • Astronomy
  • Popular science
  • Popular Science in Astronomy
  • Life on other planets
  • Life
  • Origin

2 About Peter Douglas Ward

Born 1949

Peter Douglas Ward (born May 12, 1949) is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. In 2000, along with his co-author Donald E. Brownlee, he co-originated the term Rare Earth and developed the Medea hypothesis alleging that multicellular life is ultimately self-destructive.

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