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Peter D Ward

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1) Out of thin air: dinosaurs, birds, and Earth's ancient atmosphere

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Not Supplied

Pub. Date

Not Supplied

Language

English

Formats

Book - Regular Print, eBook

2) Rare earth: why complex life is uncommon in the universe

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Copernicus

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

3) Life as we do not know it: the NASA search for (and synthesis of) alien life

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

4) Rivers in time: the search for clues to earth's mass extinctions

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

5) Under a green sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future

Author

Ward, Peter D

Publisher

Smithsonian Books/Collins

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

Description

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More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion: that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate...