On Gaia : a critical investigation of the relationship between life and earth /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gaia, the grand idea
- Good citizens or selfish genes?
- Life at the edge : lessons from extremophiles
- Temperature paces life
- Icehouse earth
- Given enough time
- Evolutionary innovations and environmental change
- A stable or an unstable world?
- The puzzle of life's long persistence
- Conclusions.