# Medea hypothesis

> hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal, and that microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to a microbial-dominated state

**Wikidata**: [Q2354152](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2354152)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/medea-hypothesis


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013