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Peter Ward is a professor at the University of Washington and the University of Adelaide, and a co-author of the Rare Earth hypothesis. He studies mass extinctions, climate change, and the evolution of life on Earth and beyond.
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.
Peter Ward (born 27 July 1955) is an English retired footballer, whose most successful times were with Brighton & Hove Albion, mostly as a forward. He now lives in the United States.
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s ...
28 Jan 2009 · Geologist Peter Ward explains how bacteria produced a deadly gas that killed most life on Earth several times. He also suggests a possible medical use for this poison and challenges the asteroid theory of extinction.
1 Feb 2013 · Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen...
Peter Ward is a professor at the University of Washington who studies life on Earth and its extinction events. He also writes popular books and appears in documentaries on evolution and ecology.