Rare Earth: Why complex life isuncommon in the universe

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Rare Earth: Why complex life is
uncommon in the universe
Peter D. Ward
Donald Brownlee

Publisher: Copernicus
ISBN: 978-0387952895

Summary: Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe is a 2000 popular science book about xenobiology by Peter Ward, a geologist and evolutionary biologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, a cosmologist and astrobiologist. The book is the origin of the term ‘Rare Earth Hypothesis’ which, like the book’s authors, assert that complex life is rare in the universe.

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