Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal; in this view, microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history. It is named after the mythological Medea, who killed her own children. Medea represents the Earth, and her children are multicellular life.Past \"suicide attempts\" include:Methane poisoning, 3.5 billion years agoThe oxygen catastrophe, 2.7 billion years agoSnowball earth, twice, 2.3 billion years ago and 790–630 million years agoAt least five putative hydrogen sulfide-induced mass extinctions, such as the Great Dying, 252.28 million years agoThe list does not include the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, since this was, at least partially, externally induced by a meteor impact."@en }
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- Medea_hypothesis abstract "The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal; in this view, microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history. It is named after the mythological Medea, who killed her own children. Medea represents the Earth, and her children are multicellular life.Past \"suicide attempts\" include:Methane poisoning, 3.5 billion years agoThe oxygen catastrophe, 2.7 billion years agoSnowball earth, twice, 2.3 billion years ago and 790–630 million years agoAt least five putative hydrogen sulfide-induced mass extinctions, such as the Great Dying, 252.28 million years agoThe list does not include the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, since this was, at least partially, externally induced by a meteor impact.".