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Earth's mass extinction - Peter Ward

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Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.

According to Peter Ward, the planet, like us, is going to have an old age and we are now in the _________.

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