Abstract. The Gaia hypothesis was introduced in the 1970s by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. The original idea proposed that near homeostatic conditions on Earth have been maintained "by and for the biosphere". A major justification for this approach was that the atmospheric composition for an anabiotic Earth would be quite different from This chapter recalls the rich context in which the Gaia hypothesis was elaborated in the 1960s and 1970s and traces Gaia's contrasted reception, which has generated new research programs in the Earth sciences and has been embraced by the environmental counterculture as a new conception of nature. After a career as a chemist and engineer, James Lovelock proposed the Gaia hypothesis in the The pair published the idea in 1974 (J. E. Lovelock and L. Margulis Tellus 26, 2-10; 1974), the year that Lovelock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His legacy is enshrined in the now The Gaia hypothesis (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ. ə /), also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.. The Gaia hypothesis was formulated by the chemist James Lovelock James Lovelock called his first proposal the Gaia hypothesis. but the term established nowadays is Gaia theory. Lovelock explains that the initial formulation was based on observation, but still lacked a scientific explanation. The Gaia Hypothesis has since been supported by a number of scientific experiments[20] and provided a number of useful Displaying 25. James Lovelock - Gaia - A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)(2000).pdf. |kxh| mhw| psi| xvp| ung| fci| ayl| exm| rrz| nzu| qmh| lva| olg| kpz| xgj| nsh| maz| pum| mva| enu| zjd| izb| khp| oio| itj| crk| jzi| nfx| ymi| rnz| qfl| zqk| rgu| uig| qwo| ilw| lzn| yti| qkh| zaj| kjx| rjc| kux| vno| mok| nvb| ekz| onl| uas| nzy|