The medea hypothesis : is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? /
Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949-
The medea hypothesis : is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? / Peter Ward. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009. - xxii, 180 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-172) and index.
Darwinian life -- What is evolutionary "success"? -- Two hypotheses about the nature of life on earth -- Medean feedbacks and global processes -- Medean events in the history of life -- Humans as medeans -- Biomass through time as a test -- Predicted future trends of biomass -- Summation -- Environmental implications -- What must be done.
9780691130750 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2008056066
Extinction (Biology)
Environmental geology.
Historical geology.
Life (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Catastrophes (Geology)
QE721.2.E97 / W375 2009
576.8/4
The medea hypothesis : is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? / Peter Ward. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009. - xxii, 180 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-172) and index.
Darwinian life -- What is evolutionary "success"? -- Two hypotheses about the nature of life on earth -- Medean feedbacks and global processes -- Medean events in the history of life -- Humans as medeans -- Biomass through time as a test -- Predicted future trends of biomass -- Summation -- Environmental implications -- What must be done.
9780691130750 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2008056066
Extinction (Biology)
Environmental geology.
Historical geology.
Life (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Catastrophes (Geology)
QE721.2.E97 / W375 2009
576.8/4