The dominant atmospheric gases, nitrogen and oxygen, are biological. After a career as a chemist and engineer, james lovelock proposed the gaia hypothesis in the 1970s with lynn margulis, a biologist. The idea that life on earth regulates the physical and chemical conditions of the environment suitable for life. Gaia proposes that the earth acts like a living organism. Thus the gaia hypothesis validates our sense of wonder and reverence for the natural world, by proposing a scientific basis for our sense that. The world can be seen as a complex interacting system, behaving in some ways. James lovelock, gaia theory, and the rejection of factvalue dualism article pdf available december 2011 with 1,424 reads how we measure reads. The gaia hypothesis university of california, berkeley. Scientists finally have an explanation for the gaia puzzle.
James lovelocks gaia hypothesis archive ouverte hal. James lovelock gaia theory college of science and mathematics. Hence forward the word gaia will be used to describe the biosphere. Exploring our lovehate relationship with gaia new scientist.
Biologyhans papers 2010tilman and downing 1994 nature. Pdf james lovelock, gaia theory, and the rejection of. Lovelock concluded that life must regulate the composition of the earths atmosphere. James lovelock and the gaia hypothesis new scientist. Lovelock admitted that the relentless criticism pained him. Developed by scientist and inventor james lovelock, and microbiologist lynn margulis, the gaia hypothesis originally proposed that. The gaia hypothesis a, also known as the gaia theory or the gaia principle, proposes. James lovelocks gaia hypothesis has challenged conventional thinking about the nature of the earth as an integrated system. When a colleague and i interviewed him in 2000, he said that by the end of the 1980s he had begun to.
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