Peter Ward (1) (1949–)
Autor/a de Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History
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Peter Ward (1) s'ha combinat en Peter D. Ward.
Obres de Peter Ward
Les obres s'han combinat en Peter D. Ward.
Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History (2004) 292 exemplars
A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth (2015) 145 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Ward, Peter
- Nom oficial
- Ward, Peter Douglas
- Data de naixement
- 1949-12-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Professions
- paleontologist
professor (Biology, Earth and Space Sciences)
non-fiction author - Organitzacions
- California Academy of Sciences (Fellow ∙ 1984)
University of Washington - Biografia breu
- Peter D. Ward, Ph.D., is a paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is currently examining the nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event with studies in France and Spain involving detailed field work that concentrates on ammonites and bivalves. Ward is also researching speciation patterns and ecology of the living cephalopods Nautilus and Sepia and examining the stratigraphic history of West Coast Cretaceous basins through detailed biostratigraphy and basin analysis. He is author of On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions and The Natural History of Nautilus.
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- Obres
- 9
- Membres
- 982
- Popularitat
- #26,223
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 38
- ISBN
- 149
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 5
The last third is a list of factors that might be affecting our epigenome, and while there's recent studies to indicate the possibility of such, it starts to creep towards fearmongering. In the epilogue, Ward complains about the blowback he got for saying that stress from the 2016 election among other things would affect us epigenetically- while that could be likely, he quipped it without evidence so I don't think he's the wronged party there. As scientists, we should be careful and make assertions if they can be backed up by evidence- otherwise it's just noise.… (més)