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Peter Douglas Ward (born May 12, 1949 [ 3]) is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He has written numerous popular science works for a general audience and is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. [ 4]
21 hours ago · 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.
Paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter D. Ward studies the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (the one that killed the dinosaurs) and other mass extinctions. He is a leader in the intriguing new field of astrobiology, the study of the origin, distribution and evolution of life in the universe.
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe is a 2000 popular science book about xenobiology by Peter Ward, a geologist and evolutionary biologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, a cosmologist and astrobiologist.
Peter Ward is a paleontologist and astrobiologist who studies life on Earth—where it came from, how it ends, and what that means. His research is focused on the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which he explores at field sites in France and Spain.
Peter Ward has his primary appointment in the Department of Biology, but mantains a 1/3 appointment in ESS. Ward is widely recognized for his word on the living cephalopods Nautilus and Sepia and his research on mass extinctions.
A theory of Earth's mass extinctions. 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 sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.
Sep 30, 2016 · At various times, life on earth has come close to being erased. Paleontologist Peter Ward explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions.
Mar 25, 2008 · Paleontologist Peter D. 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.
Peter D. Ward. Professor. argo@uw.edu. 206-543-2962.
