Screen LibraryScientists debate Gaia：the next century
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 377 p.: ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0262194988 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q14 |
| CLC: | Q14-1 |
| Call Number: | Q14-1/S416 |
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Includes bibliographical references. Foreword / Pedro Ruiz Torres -- Reflections on Gaia / James Lovelock -- Gaia by any other name / Lynn Margulis -- Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection / Timothy M. Lenton -- Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts / Tyler Volk -- Models and geophysiological hypotheses / Arthur C. Petersen -- Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life / Eric D. Schneider -- Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis / J. Scott Turner -- Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation / David Wilkinson -- Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? Bi |