학술논문
Gaia and evolutionary biology.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*EARTH sciences
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ISSN
0006-3568
Abstract
Examines the reasons why many biologists, in contrast to earth-system scientists, have been cool (or downright hostile) to the Gaia concept as initially formulated by Lovelock and Margulis. A taxonomy of Gaia concepts; The problem of the population of one; The underlying processes; Antitheses of Gaia; Falsifiable hypothesis or fruitful heuristic.