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In late March of 1996, after disembarking from a bus at a bustling square called Gloucester Green, I walked through a maze of ancient streets toward one of the colleges of Oxford University. There Jim Lovelock and his wife Sandy were convening their second gathering of specialists on Gaia. The first, on the same lovely grounds two years earlier, had “the self-regulating earth” as its theme. This second meeting promised more of the podium to the biologists. Its theme: “the evolution of the superorganism.”
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Volk, T. (1998). The Parts of Gaia. In: Gaia’s Body. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2190-6_4
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