彼得·D·沃德
彼得·道格拉斯·沃德(英语:Peter Douglas Ward,1949年5月12日—)是一位美国古生物学家和科普作家,现为澳大利亚阿德莱德大学教授,主要贡献有提出了美狄亚假说(Medea hypothesis)、地球殊异假说(Rare Earth hypothesis,与唐纳德·E·布朗利共同提出[1] )等,另外也出版了多部科普著作[2]。
Peter Douglas Ward | |
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出生 | 美国华盛顿州西雅图 | 1949年5月12日
国籍 | 美国 |
知名于 | 白垩纪﹣古近纪灭绝事件等 |
科学生涯 | |
研究领域 | 古生物学、天体生物学 |
主要作品
参考文献
- ^ Matt Williams. Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IV: What is the Rare Earth Hypothesis? (PDF). Universe Today. 29 July 2020 [6 June 2021]. (原始内容 (PDF)存档于2020-11-28).
Origins: The term “Rare Earth” takes its name from the book Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (2000), by Peter Ward and Donald E. Brownlee ... As the authors describe it, the Rare Earth argument comes down to two central hypotheses ... making Earth a very special place
- ^ Advisers, Microbe Mind Forum. (原始内容存档于2014-02-28).
外部链接
- Collection of interviews of Peter Ward (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- His homepage at University of Adelaide (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Peter Ward faculty page at the University of Washington (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Video of interview/discussion about mass extinctions with Peter Ward (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) and Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv
- Video discussion about the link between paleontology & astrobiology with Peter Ward (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) and Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv
- Peter Ward lecture on the Medea hypothesis and mass extinctions (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- YouTube上的Talk: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps (April 2013)