Life as We Do Not Know It (Pocket)
avPeter Douglas Ward
ISBN: 9780143038498 - UTGIVEN: 2007-02A revealing exploration of the latest NASA research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life also poses a hypothesis about the origins of life on Earth, examining the controversial idea of creating non-DNA life in a laboratory as well as the scientific possibilities of the range of life through[...]
Rivers in Time (Pocket)
avPeter Douglas Ward
ISBN: 9780231118637 - UTGIVEN: 2002-12Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species -- from single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemoths -- to suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms. Today the rich diversity of life on the Earth is again in grave [...]
Rare Earth (Häftad)
avPeter Douglas Ward, Donald Brownlee
ISBN: 9780387952895 - UTGIVEN: 200401What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? What conditions are necessary for the emergence of intelligence? This books synthesize sinformation from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, to apply what we know about the rise of life on Earth to what could pos[...]
The Medea Hypothesis (Inbunden)
avPeter Douglas Ward
ISBN: 9780691130750 - UTGIVEN: 200903In "The Medea Hypothesis", renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere - one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he ar[...]
