The medea hypothesis - is life on earth ultimately self-destructive?
Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, this book argues that life might be its own worst enemy. Invoking Medea, the mythical mother who killed her own children, the book demonstrates that all but one of the mass extinctions that have struck Earth were caused by life itself. Could life by its very nature threaten its own existence?
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