num_pages: 252
description: The Earth, James Lovelock proposes, behaves as if it were a superorganism, made up from all the living things and from their material environment. When he first sketched out his brilliant Gaia theory in the 1970s, people around the world embraced it; within a short time Gaia has moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream.
language: English
title: Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
titlecomplete: Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
genres: Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction, Biology, Green, Game Design, Ecology, Nature, Popular Science, Environment
ratings_count: 347
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc