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James Lovelock's seminal work, Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth, explores the theory of Earth as a self-regulating organism.
However, fortunately, there are central components of Gaia that are fundamental to all definitions, and it is these that i examine in this book. These concepts are at the heart of the hypothesis and are present regard-less of which variant is chosen: a. Earth is a favorable habitat for life.
1 Νοε 2022 · PDF | God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a... | Find, read and cite all the research...
Some have hailed Gaia as a profound discovery, while others have dismissed it as a ‘just-so story’ that is more entertaining than informative. Here I will argue that Gaia, in its different guises, is a mixture of fact, theory, metaphor, and wishful thinking.
By postulating a new entity emerging from the interconnection of life and geological processes, the Gaia hypothesis not only had a revolutionary influence on the constitution of a new scientific field of the Earth sciences, but on the way we collectively think about nature. Dreaming about life in the solar system ... and back to Earth .
1 Μαΐ 2003 · Gaia has been a fruitful hypothesis generator, and has prompted many intriguing conjectures about how biological processes might contribute to planetary-scale regulation of atmospheric chemistry...
6 This is the central themes of Stephen Harding, Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Green Books, 2013); see also Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
