After a career as a chemist and engineer, james lovelock proposed the gaia hypothesis in the 1970s with lynn margulis, a biologist. Developed by scientist and inventor james lovelock, and microbiologist lynn margulis, the gaia hypothesis originally proposed that. Scientists finally have an explanation for the gaia puzzle. James lovelocks gaia hypothesis has challenged conventional thinking about the nature of the earth as an integrated system.
The world can be seen as a complex interacting system, behaving in some ways. Pdf james lovelock, gaia theory, and the rejection of. Lovelock admitted that the relentless criticism pained him. The gaia hypothesis a, also known as the gaia theory or the gaia principle, proposes. Biologyhans papers 2010tilman and downing 1994 nature.
Lovelock concluded that life must regulate the composition of the earths atmosphere. James lovelock, gaia theory, and the rejection of factvalue dualism article pdf available december 2011 with 1,424 reads how we measure reads. Thus the gaia hypothesis validates our sense of wonder and reverence for the natural world, by proposing a scientific basis for our sense that. James lovelocks gaia hypothesis archive ouverte hal. James lovelock gaia theory college of science and mathematics.
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