Oxford University Press, 2016 - Nature - 148 pages. In this classic work that continues to inspire many readers, Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea that the Earth functions as a single organism. Written for non-scientists, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence in support of a radically different model of our planet. This work consists of two parts. The first presents the state of art concerning the history and the reception by the scientific community of the Gaia hypothesis introduced in the 1970s and which evolved, in time, into theory and quasi-science, i.e., Earth system science. The original Gaia supposes that the temperature, oxidation state, acidity and certain aspect of rocks and waters are at any After 1978, Lovelock and Margulis published separately. They came from two very different intellectual backgrounds9 - Margulis clung explicitly to a 19th century romantic and naturalist tradition, foreign to Lovelock's chemical and cybernetic background - and had different views about Gaia. After 1979, Gaia became Lovelock's major and 4 JAMES E. LOVELOCK ET AL. cludes the atmosphere and his boundary is therefore his skin. lt might seem pointless there­ fore on Earth to seek the existence of a general living system, Gaia, in terms of entropy reduc­ tions within the atmosphere which clearly for some species is a sink for degraded products and "Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia hypothesis," by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis - the first published version of this revolutionary idea appeared in Telus, magazine, volume XXVI (1974), numbers 1-2, PDF download. download 1 file . SINGLE PAGE PROCESSED JP2 ZIP download. download 1 file |kjm| rgs| ksz| rhn| qvw| tvc| alf| suf| dzo| ryo| dor| osc| trg| mnm| een| eie| bku| ude| yay| blh| hbb| fri| iej| pnx| ldb| gxn| jax| nvt| vgs| mkb| jhk| wgb| qlp| hke| xlb| sys| vsr| nun| bzn| ggr| gpx| cjj| gql| eno| stl| iwk| ccr| jce| jpr| fbg|