LEADER 06377nam 2201525Ia 450 001 9910786971303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-4791-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400847914 035 $a(CKB)2670000000368335 035 $a(EBL)1184270 035 $a(OCoLC)844938817 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886464 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12374419 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886464 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10817212 035 $a(PQKB)11754755 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1184270 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001747379 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43429 035 $a(DE-B1597)453934 035 $a(OCoLC)979968577 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400847914 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1184270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713311 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL493129 035 $a(PPN)183951743 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000368335 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn Gaia$b[electronic resource] $ea critical investigation of the relationship between life and earth /$fToby Tyrrell 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12158-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Contents --$tPreface --$t1. Gaia, the Grand Idea --$t2. Good Citizens or Selfish Genes? --$t3. Life at the Edge: Lessons from Extremophiles --$t4. Temperature Paces Life --$t5. Icehouse Earth --$t6. Given Enough Time . . . --$t7. Evolutionary Innovations and Environmental Change --$t8. A Stable or an Unstable World? --$t9. The Puzzle of Life's Long Persistence --$t10. Conclusions --$tNotes --$tFurther Reading --$tReferences --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aOne of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970's, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others--and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia. Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact. On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable--or against poor stewardship by us. 606 $aGaia hypothesis 606 $aEcology$xPhilosophy 610 $aCretaceous. 610 $aEarth climate. 610 $aEarth environment. 610 $aEarth history. 610 $aGaia hypothesis. 610 $aGaia. 610 $aJames Lovelock. 610 $aanaerobes. 610 $aanthropic principle. 610 $aastronomical processes. 610 $aatmosphere. 610 $aatmospheric CO2. 610 $aatmospheric science. 610 $abiodiversity. 610 $abiological processes. 610 $abiomass. 610 $abiosphere. 610 $acarbon. 610 $achemical equilibrium. 610 $aclimate science. 610 $aclimate shifts. 610 $aclimatic state. 610 $acoevolutionary hypothesis. 610 $adiatoms. 610 $aecological dynamics. 610 $aecology. 610 $aenvironmental catastrophes. 610 $aenvironmental control. 610 $aenvironmental preferences. 610 $aenvironmental regulation. 610 $aeusocial colonies. 610 $aevolution. 610 $aevolutionary advances. 610 $aevolutionary biology. 610 $aevolutionary dynamics. 610 $aevolutionary inventions. 610 $aextremophiles. 610 $afirst forests. 610 $afossil evidence. 610 $agenetic similarity. 610 $agenetic uniformity. 610 $ageological forces. 610 $ageological hypothesis. 610 $ageology. 610 $aglobal environment. 610 $agrowth. 610 $ahabitat commitment. 610 $ahomeostatic regulations. 610 $aice ages. 610 $aicy climates. 610 $ainterglacials. 610 $aland plants. 610 $alife persistence. 610 $alife. 610 $aliving organisms. 610 $along-term life. 610 $ametabolic rates. 610 $amethane. 610 $anatural selection. 610 $aoceanography. 610 $aoptimal temperatures. 610 $aoxygen-dependent photosynthesis. 610 $aoxygen-yielding photosynthesis. 610 $aoxygen. 610 $aoxygenic photosynthesis. 610 $aplanetary environment. 610 $aplanetary regulation. 610 $aplant transpiration. 610 $aprimary production. 610 $asingle organisms. 610 $astability. 610 $atemperature effects. 610 $atemperature. 610 $avegetation. 615 0$aGaia hypothesis. 615 0$aEcology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a570.1 700 $aTyrrell$b Toby$f1965-$01554586 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786971303321 996 $aOn Gaia$93815906 997 $aUNINA