Comments on: Book review – On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth

By: Book review – Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:58:18 +0000

[…] his sceptical but fair assessment that raises some of the same objections Tyrrell also raised in On Gaia. Another example is how he spends several pages on the rather curious observation of inter-brain […]

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By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:43:21 +0000

[…] stream” (p. 55), I feel that Slijepčević falls into the trap that Toby Tyrrell warned of in On Gaia. Namely, the emotionally comforting but dangerous belief in Earth’s natural resilience. True, […]

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By: Book review – The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:42:42 +0000

[…] the final part of my four-part review series on the Gaia hypothesis (see also part 1, part 2, and part 3), James Lovelock’s notion that the Earth is a giant self-regulating system that maintains […]

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By: Book review – The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:08:31 +0000

[…] ← Book review – Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth Book review – On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth &r… […]

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By: Book review – Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:07:22 +0000

[…] The Ages of Gaia; Toby Tyrrell’s critical investigation of its scientific underpinnings, On Gaia; and Michael Ruse’s wider analysis of its reception and historical antecedents, The Gaia […]

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