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Peter D. Ward

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Professor at the University of Washington

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Average rating: 3.79 · 742 ratings · 145 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee 3.91 avg rating — 215 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future 3.74 avg rating — 98 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and HowThey Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History 3.78 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee 4.01 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps 3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere by Peter D. Ward, David W. Ehlert (Illustrator) 3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Future Evolution by Peter D. Ward, Alexis Rockman (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice”
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