The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
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ISBN: 0553348167 / Publisher: Bantam, March 1990
Argues that the earth should be considered as a giant living organism, discusses its evolution, and explains what we must do to preserve it
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The Earth, James Lovelock proposes, behaves as if it were a superorganism, made up from all the living things and from their material environment. When he first sketched out his brilliant Gaia theory in the 1970s, people around the world embraced it; within a short time Gaia has moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream.
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