Rare Earth (book) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/06/2019

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00:00:37 1 Synopsis
00:03:47 2 Reception
00:07:12 3 Follow-on book
00:08:15 4 See also



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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, both faculty members at the University of Washington. The book is the origin of the term 'Rare Earth Hypothesis' which, like the book, asserts the concept that complex life is rare in the universe.