01793nam a2200421 a 4500001001000000003000700010005001700017006001900034007001500053008004100068020003600109020002700145035002200172035002300194035002500217035002300242035002100265040004100286050002700327082001600354100003200370245011200402260005300514300002500567490002300592504006600615505034500681650002501026650002701051650002401078650001901102650002401121650002701145655002201172710002001194830006101214856009601275EBC457937MiAaPQ20250821105416.0m     o  d |      cr cnu||||||||090112s2009    njua    ob    001 0 eng d  a9781400829880q(electronic bk.)  z9780691130750q(print)  a(MiAaPQ)EBC457937  a(Au-PeEL)EBL457937  a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312598  a(CaONFJC)MIL215822  a(OCoLC)438732696  aMiAaPQbengerdaepncMiAaPQdMiAaPQ 4aQE721.2.E97bW375 20090 a576.8/42221 aWard, Peter Douglas,d1949-14aThe medea hypothesish[electronic resource] :bis life on earth ultimately self-destructive? /cPeter Ward.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,cc2009.  axxii, 180 p. :bill.1 aScience essentials  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-172) and index.0 aDarwinian 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. 0aExtinction (Biology) 0aEnvironmental geology. 0aHistorical geology. 0aLife (Biology) 0aEvolution (Biology) 0aCatastrophes (Geology) 4aElectronic books.2 aProQuest (Firm) 0aScience essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))40uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=457937zClick to View