An interesting and informative book in which the author investigates the mystery of what caused the various great extinctions in the past, and how this relates to the current environmental situation today. This scientific mystery story involves everything from squabbling scientist, volcanoes, "evil"...
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere by Peter D. Ward hypothesizes that changing atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels over the last 600 million years have caused significant evolutionary development, including changes in body plan (morphology), physiology and diversity ...
Both apocalyptic and informative. There were times I found myself getting somewhat depressed while reading this book but that is because there is an underlying truth in it and that is if we don't change our consumption habits in a large and meaningful way fairly quickly the earth will see huge uphe...
Methulselah becomes a metaphor for living fossils in Peter Ward's eloquent book On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions . The presence of peculiar forms like, the horseshoe crab, the nautilus, echinoids, and assorted other animals and plants puzzled Darwin. How, he asked, cou...
Natural History of Nautilus - Peter D. W...
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the M...
Under a Green Sky (08) by Ward, Peter D ...
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