Wednesday, 23 November 2022

The Notion Of The Biosphere As A Single Living Organism

Davies & Gribbin (1992: 279):
… one of the few ideas to emerge from science and reach out to strike a chord with a wide cross-section of ordinary people in recent decades has been the concept of Gaia, the hypothesis that the Earth itself may, in some sense, be regarded as a single living organism.


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To be clear, It is not so much that the biosphere is a single living organism, but that every single organism is a highly integrated ecosystem.

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