彼得·D·沃德

彼得·道格拉斯·沃德（，）是一位美国古生物学家和科普作家，现为澳大利亚阿德莱德大学教授，主要贡献有提出了美狄亚假说（Medea hypothesis）、地球殊異假說（Rare Earth hypothesis，与唐纳德·E·布朗利共同提出 ）等，另外也出版了多部科普著作。

主要作品
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外部链接

• [http://bigthink.com/users/peterward Collection of interviews of Peter Ward]
• [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/peter.ward His homepage at University of Adelaide]
• [http://www.ess.washington.edu/dwp/people/profile.php?name=ward--peter Peter Ward faculty page at the University of Washington]
• [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/7431 Video of interview/discussion about mass extinctions with Peter Ward] and Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv
• [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/8488 Video discussion about the link between paleontology & astrobiology with Peter Ward] and Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv
• [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_ward_on_mass_extinctions.html Peter Ward lecture on the Medea hypothesis and mass extinctions]
• (April 2013)