Darwinizing Gaia
Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.
First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today, most evolutionary biologists consider the theory problematic. In Darwinizing Gaia, W. Ford Doolittle, one of evolutionary and molecular biol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549523 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262549522 |
| Author: | W. Ford Doolittle |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology |
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About The Author
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle directed the Evolutionary Biology Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for 20 years and received the 2013 Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, Canada’s top science prize, and the Killam Prize of the Canada Council, Canada’s second most coveted award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada and the United Kingdom.
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