Peter Douglas Ward

An investigation into a 250-million-year-old environmental apocalypse that predated the age of the dinosaurs describes an event that caused the annihilation of ninety percent of all plant and animal species on Earth, taking a close up look at the prehistoric world of the gorgons, the causes of mass extinctions, and their implications for the future of humankind. Reprint.

The Monsters that Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and how They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History

Gorgon

Explores research into extraterrestrial life and hypothesizes about the origins of life on Earth, examining the idea of creating non-DNA life in a laboratory as well as the scientific possibilities of life throughout the universe.

The NASA Search for (and Synthesis Of) Alien Life

Life as We Do Not Know it

Donald Brownlee

This is a vivid description of the second half of the life of our planet. Combining their knowledge of evolution with their understanding of the life cycle of stars and solar systems, the authors predict that the process will essentially reverse itself until only the simplest forms remain on Earth.

How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

The Life and Death of Planet Earth

Three Centuries of Scientific Adventures in the Deep Pacific to Capture a Prehistoric, Living Fossil

In Search of Nautilus

"This is the first real biography of the Earth - not only a brilliant portrait of the emergence and evolution of life on this planet, but a vivid and frightening look at Earth's remote future. Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee combine storytelling power with extreme scientific care, and their narrative is as transfixing as any of H.G. Wells's fantasies, but more enthralling, for Ward and Brownlee have real power to prognosticate. This is a book that makes one shiver, but also inspires one to wonder how humanity (if we survive in the short term) will fare in the distant future." Oliver Sachs Peter Ward and Don Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, are in the vanguard of the new field of astrobiology. Combining their knowledge of the evolution of life on our planet with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, the authors tell the awe-inspiring story of the second half of Earth's life. The process of planetary evolution will essentially reverse itself; life as we know it will subside until only the simplest forms remain. The oceans will evaporate, and as the sun slowly expands, Earth itself will eventually meet a fiery end.

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