Mass extinctions make life ‘bounce back stronger,’ controversial study suggests
Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis — the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, that Earth itself behaves like a self-perpetuating organism, with living organisms interacting with the nonliving Earth to maintain and even improve conditions for life. Some experts […]
