books.google.ca - 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...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_ages_of_Gaia.html?id=xW_T4jV9mFAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe ages of Gaia
