Gaia and the colonization of Mars.
Gaia and the colonization of Mars.
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盖亚和火星殖民。
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-2284-2_17
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发表时间:
1993
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通讯作者:
O. West
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作者:
L. Margulis;O. West
The Gaia hypothesis of James E. Lovelock holds that the surface temperature, chemistry of the reactive gases, redox state, and pH of Earth’s atmosphere and surface sediments are homeorrhetically maintained by the metabolism, behavior, growth, and reproduction of living organisms. (Homeostasis is physiological regulation around a fixed set point, like control of adult mammalian body temperature around 37°C, whereas homeorrhesis, a parallel concept, refers to regulation around a changing set point, like temperature regulation in a developing mammalian embryo.) The term Gaia, the name of a daunting Greek goddess, is, in Lovelock’s view, simply “a good four-letter word referring to the Earth.” She is also Ge or Gaea (for example, the Geos satellite, geology, geography, or in Pangeae).