It is called Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (Copernicus Books, 2000). Ward, a paleontologist by training, and Brownlee, an astronomer, combined forces to produce what has ...

With the publication of “Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe,” Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee explained why microbial life may be ubiquitous in the universe, but ...

Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington and coauthor (with Don Brownlee) of Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, argues that while simple life-forms like ...

Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of the ... concluding that life may be common, but intelligence is rare. Here's why. It's very difficult ...

Yet are there? Paleontologist Peter Ward, coauthor of Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, points to evidence that intelligent life must be exceedingly rare. Other scientists ...

In 2000, paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington in Seattle penned a controversial book, Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe ...

Andrew Snyder-Beattie and colleagues have provided strong statistical backing to the idea that intelligent life is exceptionally rare in the universe ... make Earth uninhabitable for complex ...

William Bains and I make the case that complex, macroscopic life should be common in the universe. We added one caveat, however: The conclusion only applies if the origin of life is not a rare ...

According to Ward and Brownlee, Earth is a statistical fluke, and life is a rare phenomenon. In their view, this is even more true for complex ... struggle to explain why. An electronic version ...

Instead, I argue that life is rare (take a look ... at the history of life on Earth, and all that had to happen for multicellular organisms to thrive) and that complex, intelligent life much ...

"Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe." Their theory states that the celestial recipe that led to complex life here on Earth was a rare occurrence, and the chances of ...