ent design.
 Theory vs. hypothesis
Because of its inability to address the aforementioned enduring science against its claims, the Gaia hypothesis is regarded within the scientific community accordingly: as a hypothesis (and probably a failed one at that), and not as a fact, theory, or law. This contrasts with proponents of the concept, who have been known to call the hypothesis a "theory", even though it is antithetical to scientific terminology and is regarded by scientists as promoting pseudoscience.
 See also
- See the Wikipedia article on Gaia hypothesis.
- The Mother Earth Metaphor
- The Earth Isn't Sick, She's Pregnant
- Stages in the Evolution of Gaia (Earth)
- The Evolving Gaia Theory
- Evidence In Support Of A Gaian Earth
- Lovelock, James (2001), "Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist", (Oxford University Press)
- Margulis, Lynn (1998). Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. ISBN 0-297-81740-X.
- Marshall, A (2002) The Unity of Nature, Imperial College Press, London.
- Turney, Jon (2003), Lovelock and Gaia:Signs of Life Icon Books, UK [ISBN 1-84046-458-5]
- Lovelock, J.E.; Margulis, L. (1974). "Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere- The Gaia hypothesis". Tellus 26 (1): 2–10.
- Volk, Tyler (2003), "Gaia's Body; Toward a Physiology of Earth" (MIT Press)
- S.J.Gould: Kropotkin was no crackpot. Natural History 106 (June 1997): 12-21
- ↑ A summary of the Gaia hypothesis
- ↑ The Gaia hypothesis and Climate Change
- ↑ The Gaia Hypothesis: Fact, Theory, and Wishful Thinking
- ↑ An example might be the ancient natural nuclear reactors of central and western Africa, which maintained a dynamic equilibrium continuously over some tens of millions of years.
- ↑ Link to an article about the Daisyworld simulation
- ↑ Doolittle, W. F. “Is Nature Really Motherly?” Coevolution Quarterly 29 (1981): 58–63
- ↑ Stephen Jay Gould: Kropotkin was no crackpot. Natural History 106 (June 1997): 12-21
- ↑ IS Gaia Theory a good idea