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Gaia Hypothesis
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Gaia Hypothesis
Gaia is the theoretical opposite of Darwinism; it postulates that living organisms control and modify the relative compositions of the sea, air, and environment


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The Gaia hypothesis, named for the ancient Greek goddess of Earth, even put forth the idea that our planet behaves as a kind of giant organism, with its complex systems finely tuned to compensate when one system gets out of kilter.
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The Gaia hypothesis is a way of describing how our living planet as a whole works.
 
 
 
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