Peter Ward (paleontolog)

Peter Douglas Ward (Seattle, 1949.,[1] -) američki je paleontolog i profesor biologije i zemaljskih i svemirskih znanosti na sveučilištu Washington u Seattlu. Napisao je razne znanstvene radove, među kojima je i Hipoteza o rijetkoj Zemlji. Također je konzultant za Forum mikrobnog uma.

Peter Douglas Ward
Rođenje 1949.
Seattle, SAD
Državljanstvo Američko
Polje paleontologija
Alma mater Sveučilište Washington
Poznat po istraživanje K-T izumiranja

Izabrani radovi uredi

  • In Search of Nautilus: Three Centuries of Scientific Adventures in the Deep Pacific to Capture a Prehistoric, Living Fossil (1988) ISBN 978-0-671-61951-0 OCLC 17840660
  • On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions (1992) ISBN 978-0-7167-2488-9
  • The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared (1997) ISBN 978-0-387-98572-5
  • Time Machines: Scientific Exploration of Deep Time (1998) ISBN 978-0-387-98416-2
  • Rivers in Time: the Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions (2000) ISBN 978-0-231-11862-0
  • Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe with Donald Brownlee (2000) ISBN 978-0-387-95289-5
  • Future Evolution: An Illuminated History of Life to Come (2001) ISBN 978-0-7167-3496-3
  • The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World with Donald Brownlee (2003) ISBN 978-0-8050-7512-0
  • Gorgon: Obsession, Paleontology, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History (2004) ISBN 978-0-670-03094-1
  • Life as We Do Not Know It|Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life (2005) ISBN 0-670-03458-4
  • Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (2006) ISBN 0-309-10061-5
  • Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future (2007) ISBN 978-0-06-113791-4
  • The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? (2009) ISBN 0-691-13075-2
  • The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps (2010) ISBN 978-0-465-00949-7

Izvori uredi

  1. „Ward, Peter D. (1949)”. encycllopedia.com. Pristupljeno 5. travnja 2013. 

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