Darwinizing Gaia - Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution

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 Unquestionably, the current “polycrisis” is the most complex that Homo sapiens has ever faced, and this book can help overcome the widespread belief that evolutionary biologists don’t believe Lovelock. Written in the tradition of Richard Dawkins’

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: W Ford Doolittle, W. Ford Doolittle, Doolittle W. Ford
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2024
• EAN: 9780262549523
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54952-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Biology, life sciences