# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-d-ward
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:38.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-d-ward"
name: "Peter D. Ward"
slug: "peter-d-ward"
description: "Peter Douglas Ward is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. In 2000, along with his co-author Donald E. Brownlee, he co-originated the term Rare Earth and developed the Medea hypothesis alleging that multicellular life is ultimately self-destructive."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.42682
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بيتر وارد (اكاديمى)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Ward (Paläontologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist)"
    title: "Peter Ward (paleontologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward"
    title: "Peter Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ピーター・ウォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Ward (paleontoloog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Ward (paleontólogo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уорд, Питер (палеонтолог)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Ward (paleontolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Douglas Ward"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Ward"
    title: "Peter D. Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "彼得·D·沃德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump