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First published in 1979, this revised impression contains a new Preface. It is a book which has caught the imagination of a whole generation of environmentalists. Bringing knowledge from astronomy to zoology in support of his hypothesis, Lovelock explores the idea that the life of Earth functions as a single organism which actually defines and maintains conditions necessary for its survival.
`Jim Lovelock, a man as inventive and ingenious as he is lively and unorthodox, places a daring hypothesis before the general reader, a kind of geochemical myth for our time ...' Scientific American