New Book Suggests Earth Perhaps Not Such a Benevolent Mother After All

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 11:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

In a new book, University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward suggests that Earth is ultimately inhospitable to life, and that life itself might be the primary reason. Rather than the nurturing idea of the Gaia hypothesis, he invokes the darker Medea from Greek mythology.

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