June 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Newsletter reviews Symbiogenetics, the 4th edition of Lynn Margulis’s magnum opus (Symbiosis...
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Category: Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking
Deep Time Walk
The Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km walking audio history of life. This unfolding takes you from 4.6bn years ago to the present day, with each metre representing one million years. As you walk you begin to recognise the long geological processes and self-regulating patterns that have produced the conditions for the evolution of life. […]
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March 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Various news articles and links. A discussion of the context and background for Lynn...
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Spirituality as Common Sense
Spirituality as Common Sense In this website there has been an ongoing background discussion about...
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Our Chemical Eden
“To figure out the origin of life might take a conceptual shift towards seeing it as a pattern of molecular energy.” This article suggests a process for the chemical formation of life within deep-see geologic formations.
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January 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
This issue deals with the origins of long history of almost all ideas, the fallacy of “arguments from authority,” the framing of ideas as “extraordinary”, Lynn Margulis’s “math of biology 1 + 1 = 1,” misappropriation of the scientific term “symbiogenesis” in John Archibald’s history of the current rethinking biology in terms of collaborating consortia, […]
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Bacteria to Biosphere – Gaia is symbiosis seen from space
A presentation to the European Society for Literature,Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) at their 2015 meeting on “Scale” in Malta. The presentation discusses the new paradigms in biology and evolution that have provided new support for the importance of the microcosmos, symbiosis, Gaia theory, and the work of Martin Brasier on his discovery of “the […]
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Is the idea that the Universe is a living system scientifically valid?
An scientific analysis of the statement “The Universe is a living system.” There are very specific criteria for the statement of a scientific hypothesis, which are outlined. There is also a method by which scientific terms are changed, broadened, narrowed or replaced. The scientific definition of a term, such as “life” may not be complete […]
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
Lovelock first sketched out his theory in his bestseller, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. People all over the world embraced the theory, and in less than ten years it moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream. Lovelock argues in Gaia Theory that such things as the level of oxygen […]
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The Thousand Names of Gaia
Written for the Rio de Janeiro meeting The Thousand Names of Gaia September 2014 Bruno Latour, Sciences Po For discussion only. English kindly corrected by Michael Flower “Since we are assembled for a sort of political, scientific and anthropological ritual in order to review, utter, celebrate, list, enlarge, narrow down, pin point, conjoin or compose […]
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