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I give this book two enthusiastic thumbs up!\" (Loveday Conquest, Journal of the American Statistical Asociation, Vol. 103 (483), September, 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book aims to give readers sufficient information to apply statistical methodology in a correct and useful way. … the book meets its aim, covering a wide range of statistical techniques and dealing with many situations that are encountered in ecological statistics. This is an excellent, nicely presented and very readable book. 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Ward argue, passionately, that the opposite is true--that living organisms decrease Earth's habitability, hastening its end by perhaps a billion years.\"--PublishersWeekly.com \"When avid science readers browse the shelves for new titles, the books that grab their attention are best described by a single adjective: thought-provoking. And no scientist\/author is more provocative in his approach and innovative in his thinking than University of Washington astrobiologist Peter Ward ... [R]eaders looking for solace will not find it in Ward's latest effort, The Medea Hypothesis. This time Ward goes after motherhood itself--or at least the central idea of the Gaia ('good mother') hypothesis that has evolved to describe the relationship between life and the planet as a whole.\"--Fred Bortz, Seattle Times \"Reading the book will widen your field of vision about life on earth, which is still there after about 4 billion years.\"--Dr. Hein van Bohemen, Ecological Engineering \"The point of The Medea Hypothesis is that life, rather than helping to regulate the Earth 'System' by negative feedbacks, does all it can to consume the resources available--sowing the seeds of its own extinction.\"--Dr. Henry Gee, BBC Focus Magazine \"[Ward] makes his points succinctly and supports them well.\"--Rebecca Wigood, Vancouver Sun \"[The Medea Hypothesis] is an interesting intellectual exercise on the history of life.\"--Choice \"Ward ... adopts the tone of a planetary mortician gruesomely interested in his subject's decease. 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