Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

338 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, ...

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