Joseph, Lawrence E
Joseph E. Lawrence is a science reporter whose work has been published in The New York Times, Audubon, and Outside.

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The Gaia hypothesis is the first comprehensive scientific expression of the profoundly ancient belief that the planet Earth is a living creature. Gaia, the Growth of an Idea.

 

Gaian sensibilities are organic and voluptuous, never macho, angular, or defiant. Ibid.

 

Gaia theory does not refute or oppose the doctrine of natural selection, but rather stands as what may be the single most important amendment to it. Ibid.