Published by W.H. Freeman and Company, 1991
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.
Published by W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1992
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author on title page. xii, 212 pp. Original crimson cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket with Seattle bookstore signed label on front panel, peeling slightly. An attractive copy. A biology work (not a cryptozoology work but relevant to the field) by a Seattle and Adelaide, Australia-based paleontologist, writer, and professor. It examines mass extinctions and the species that persist despite them, so-called "living fossils" like the coelacanth. Ward is the originator of the Medea hypothesis, a cheery counter-Gaia hypothesis that argues multicellular life is, as Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis argues, indeed a superorganism, but that is inherently suicidal, always hovering on the brink of inevitable doom.