Why did the public love James Lovelock’s Gaia theory so much while scientists hated it?The Gaia Hypothesisby Michael Ruse gets to the heart of the question SOME four decades ago, when James Lovelock first suggested that Earth was akin to a living organism, regulating its temperature and che...
James Lovelock, Independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist James Lovelock is the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His books include Gaia: a new look at life on Earth (OUP, 1979); The Ages of Gaia (WW Norton, 1988); Gaia: the practical science of planetary ...
James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia ...
Gaia is a theory that has revolutionised how we see this 'pale blue dot': all living things are part of one great organism, and life as a whole shapes the planetary environment. Lovelock and Gaia tells how that came about, including the thory's long struggle to gain respectability....
Gaia theory (biology))Also found in: Dictionary, Medical. Gaia hypothesis an hypothesis developed by the British scientist, James Lovelock, to suggest that the earth is one living system, such that the distinction between organic and inorganic matter is false. Gaia was an ancient Greek goddess...
James Lovelock 在上世纪 70 年代提出的“盖亚学说”(Gaia Theory)中指出,地球是一个会自我调节、会呼吸的有机体。在这张名为《Gaia》的专辑里,作曲家 Henning Fuchs 用音乐沉痛记录了地球的诞生与演化,哀叹着我们在对地球的破坏中所扮演的角色,深刻警醒着我们将失去什么。Fuchs 先以《Gaia Rises》的生动音景描...
James Lovelock 在上世纪 70 年代提出的“盖亚学说”(Gaia Theory)中指出,地球是一个会自我调节、会呼吸的有机体。在这张名为《Gaia》的专辑里,作曲家 Henning Fuchs 用音乐沉痛记录了地球的诞生与演化,哀叹着我们在对地球的破坏中所扮演的角色,深刻警醒着我们将失去什么。Fuchs 先以《Gaia Rises》的生动音景描...
The Gaia theory of James Lovelock, first published in 1969, proposes that all living organisms and inorganic material on the Earth are part of a living dynamic system, which maintains the Earth as a fit environment for life. Read James Lovelock’s explanation of Gaia Read more about Gaia ...
A theory that the biosphere acts as a selfsustaining, self-regulating organism. British scientist James Lovelock named it after a Greek Earth goddess. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ...
Lovelock insists that "Gaia theory is testable", and lists some of the research spawned by the Gaia metaphor1• The investigations Love- lock cites, however, are generally not tests of the Gaia hypothesis, because "geophy- siology" is unfalsifiably vague; negative results can be explained...