The medea hypothesis : is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? /

The medea hypothesis : is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? / / Peter Ward.

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The medea hypothesis [electronic resource] : is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? / Peter Ward.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
xxii, 180 p. : ill.
Science essentials
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Extinction (Biology)
Environmental geology.
Historical geology.
Life (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Catastrophes (Geology)
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