Gaia Story – 3 – Lovelock and Margulis: Meeting of Minds

A crucial aspect of Gaia is that it is multi-disciplinary. We have already seen how Lovelock sought the help of a mathematician, Watson, in working out Daisyworld. Around the same time he was having “long and intense discussions” with the

Gaia Story – 2 – Daisyworld

The Gaia hypothesis ran into controversy from the outset. Lovelock decided that in order to answer his critics he needed somehow to simplify it without distorting it, for in doing so he would be able to create a mathematical model