唐納德·E·布朗利(英語:Donald Eugene Brownlee,1943年12月21日—)是一位美國天文學家,華盛頓大學教授,NASA星塵號任務首席科學家[1],與彼得·D·沃德共同提出了地球殊異假說[2]。
Matt Williams. Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IV: What is the Rare Earth Hypothesis? (PDF). Universe Today. 29 July 2020 [6 June 2021]. (原始內容存檔 (PDF)於2020-11-28). Origins: The term 「Rare Earth」 takes its name from the book Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (2000), by Peter Ward and Donald E. Brownlee ... As the authors describe it, the Rare Earth argument comes down to two central hypotheses ... making Earth a very special place