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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tyrrell, Toby, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophy of nature.
Geobiology.
Gaia hypothesis.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
NATURE > Reference.
geobiology.
Geobiologie (Sciences de la terre)
Philosophie de la nature.
Hypothese Gaïa.
Electronic books.
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.

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