Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan go on the scientific attack in Acquiring Genomes and challenge the assumptions many of us have about evolution and the world around us. They argue that instead of being the dominant factor in evolution, random…

Gaia. It’s the idea that the living organisms of the world are able to play a part in shaping both the physical and chemical environment in which they exist and, perhaps, vice-versa. The idea was first put forward by Lovelock…

Gaia Theory is the idea that the planet functions as a single ecosystem “the biosphere”. This is not a flight of fancy but rather an idea supported by hard science. One of the first people to realize the implications of…

In Life As A Geological Force, Pieter Westbroek examines how life has an influence on the geology of the planet and also explores some of the holistic models of the geological Earth. If that sounds quite “science-y” that’s because it…

If we accept the idea that the biosphere functions, in some way, as a single living organism and we, almost certainly, must do so based on current evidence – then it should, logically speaking, have some sort of physiology.  That’s…

The Molecular Biology of Gaia is not light reading but this shouldn’t dissuade you from delving into George Ronald Williams’s compelling theory. Mr. Williams offers evidence that links the regulation of climate on Earth to self-regulating mechanisms in the cells…

Lynn Margulis, one of the originators of the Gaia Theory, argues in Symbiotic Planet, that Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species failed to touch on one important topic.  The Origin of the Species, in fact. She says that while the…

What do you get when you combine Gaia Theory, the idea of a biosphere as a single ecosystem, and microbiology together?  It’s not a joke. The answer is Microcosmos and it’s a history of 4 billion years of microbial evolution…