TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Peter Douglas
TI  - The medea hypothesis: is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? 
SN  - 9780691130750 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - QE721.2.E97 W375 2009
U1  - 576.8/4 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Extinction (Biology)
KW  - Environmental geology
KW  - Historical geology
KW  - Life (Biology)
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Catastrophes (Geology)
N1  - 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
ER  -