The medea hypothesis is life on earth ultimately self-destructive? / Peter Ward.
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Princeton :
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c2009.
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| Series: | Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))
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Table of Contents:
- Darwinian 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.