Peter D. Ward Books
The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared
By Peter D. Ward, Peter Douglas Ward
Discusses the impact of humans on the extinction of animals, focusing particulary on mammoths in the Ice Age, but also including mass extinctions throughout history, such as marsupial lions and gia...
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
By Peter D. Ward, Peter Douglas Ward
"With a new preface and updated throughout, this first paperback edition of Ward and Brownlee's ground-breaking and controversial Rare Earth marshals data from geology, astronomy, and biology to pu...
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
By Peter Ward, Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee, Peter Douglas Ward
"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 tha...
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Under a green sky
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from h...
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Lamarck s revenge
"In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolut...
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