Author

Peter D. Ward

19 books

Books

  1. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe 2000
  2. The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World 2003
  3. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future 2008
  4. Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History 2004
  5. A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth 2015
  6. Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life 2005
  7. The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps 2009
  8. Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere 2006
  9. The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? 2009
  10. The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared 1997
9 more
  1. Future Evolution 2001
  2. On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions 1991
  3. Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions 2000
  4. Lamarck's revenge 2018
  5. Time Machines 1998
  6. The call of distant mammoths 1997
  7. In search of nautilus 1988
  8. The end of evolution 1994
  9. Rivers in Time 2002

“If you like Peter D. Ward, you might like these writers too.”

  1. Stephen Jay Gould Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
  2. Carl Sagan Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
  3. Richard Fortey Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
  4. Donald R. Prothero The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution
  5. Michael J. Benton When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
  6. Carl Zimmer Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
  7. David Grinspoon Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life
  8. Brian Switek Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

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