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On Gaia : : A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth / / Toby Tyrrell.

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One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulatio...

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Tyrrell, Toby,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
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Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 16 halftones. 31 line illus. 12 tables.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Table of Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1. Gaia, the Grand Idea --   |t 2. Good Citizens or Selfish Genes? --   |t 3. Life at the Edge: Lessons from Extremophiles --   |t 4. Temperature Paces Life --   |t 5. Icehouse Earth --   |t 6. Given Enough Time . . . --   |t 7. Evolutionary Innovations and Environmental Change --   |t 8. A Stable or an Unstable World? --   |t 9. The Puzzle of Life's Long Persistence --   |t 10. Conclusions --   |t Notes --   |t Further Reading --   |t References --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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520 |a One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others--and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia. Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact. On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable--or against poor stewardship by us. 
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650 0 |a Gaia hypothesis. 
650 0 |a Geobiology. 
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650 0 |a Philosophy of nature. 
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650 0 |a SCIENCE  |x Life Sciences  |x Biology. 
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653 |a Cretaceous. 
653 |a Earth climate. 
653 |a Earth environment. 
653 |a Earth history. 
653 |a Gaia hypothesis. 
653 |a Gaia. 
653 |a James Lovelock. 
653 |a anaerobes. 
653 |a anthropic principle. 
653 |a astronomical processes. 
653 |a atmosphere. 
653 |a atmospheric CO2. 
653 |a atmospheric science. 
653 |a biodiversity. 
653 |a biological processes. 
653 |a biomass. 
653 |a biosphere. 
653 |a carbon. 
653 |a chemical equilibrium. 
653 |a climate science. 
653 |a climate shifts. 
653 |a climatic state. 
653 |a coevolutionary hypothesis. 
653 |a diatoms. 
653 |a ecological dynamics. 
653 |a ecology. 
653 |a environmental catastrophes. 
653 |a environmental control. 
653 |a environmental preferences. 
653 |a environmental regulation. 
653 |a eusocial colonies. 
653 |a evolution. 
653 |a evolutionary advances. 
653 |a evolutionary biology. 
653 |a evolutionary dynamics. 
653 |a evolutionary inventions. 
653 |a extremophiles. 
653 |a first forests. 
653 |a fossil evidence. 
653 |a genetic similarity. 
653 |a genetic uniformity. 
653 |a geological forces. 
653 |a geological hypothesis. 
653 |a geology. 
653 |a global environment. 
653 |a growth. 
653 |a habitat commitment. 
653 |a homeostatic regulations. 
653 |a ice ages. 
653 |a icy climates. 
653 |a interglacials. 
653 |a land plants. 
653 |a life persistence. 
653 |a life. 
653 |a living organisms. 
653 |a long-term life. 
653 |a metabolic rates. 
653 |a methane. 
653 |a natural selection. 
653 |a oceanography. 
653 |a optimal temperatures. 
653 |a oxygen-dependent photosynthesis. 
653 |a oxygen-yielding photosynthesis. 
653 |a oxygen. 
653 |a oxygenic photosynthesis. 
653 |a planetary environment. 
653 |a planetary regulation. 
653 |a plant transpiration. 
653 |a primary production. 
653 |a single organisms. 
653 |a stability. 
653 |a temperature effects. 
653 |a temperature. 
653 |a vegetation. 
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