Can a planet think?
Jul 10, 2019
2 minutes
by David Grinspoon
scientists James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis proposed the , which likens our biosphere to a self-regulating organism. In the decades since, the idea that biological evolution is inseparable from planetary processes became part of mainstream Earth-system science. Just as an individual living thing such as a sea slug can exhibit sophisticated
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