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A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian 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 Darwinizing Gaia, W. Ford Doolittle, one of evolutionary and molecular biology's most prestigious thinkers, reformulates what evolution by natural selection is while legitimizing the controversial Gaia Hypothesis. As the first book attempting to reconcile Gaia with Darwinian thinking, and the first on persistence-based evolution, Doolittle's clear, innovative position broadens evolutionary theory by offering potential remedies for Gaia's theoretical challenges. 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's The Selfish Gene, Darwinizing Gaia will appeal to students, evolutionary scientists, philosophers, and microbiologists, as well as environmentalists seeking to understand the Earth as a system, at a time when climate change has drawn our planet's structure and function into sharp relief.

Table of Contents:
Preface: Why I am writing this book Chapter 1. The Gaia Hypothesis Chapter 2. Some unresolved conflicts in Darwinism Chapter 3. The derivation of the classical (Darwinian) view Chapter 4. Evolutionary transitions in individuality: MLS1 and MLS2 and their multispecies equivalent Chapter 5. Holobiosis Chapter 6. Extended phenotypes, replicators and interactors, possible solutions Chapter 7. Lateral gene transfer, its agents and its consequences Chapter 8. Extending extended phenotypes and the gene’s-eye view Chapter 9. Clades: evolution by persistence Chapter 10. Songs: evolution by recurrence Chapter 11. Gaia 2.0

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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262549523
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 178 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
  • ISBN-10: 0262549522
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 114 mm


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