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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 has written numerous popular science works for a general audience and is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. [4]
Peter Ward is a scientist who explores the origin, distribution and evolution of life in the universe. He has written books on mass extinctions, rare Earth and the Medea hypothesis, and has a TV series on Animal Planet Network.
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe is a 2000 popular science book about xenobiology by Peter Ward, a geologist and evolutionary biologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, a cosmologist and astrobiologist.
Jul 29, 2022 · Peter Ward, a paleontologist and co-author of Rare Earth, argues that complex life is extremely rare in the universe due to many specific factors. He explains the role of plate tectonics, gas giants, oxygen, and other features of Earth that enable complex life.
Biologist Peter Ward proposes a new hypothesis that bacteria, not asteroids, caused most of the major extinction events in Earth's history. He explains how hydrogen sulfide, a poison produced by bacteria, could have wiped out many species and offers a possible medical use for it.
Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which he explores at field sites in France and Spain.
Mar 1, 2015 · In 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.
