BIBLIOGRAPHY for the Gaia Hypothesis
JEL: signifies remarks of James Lovelock

BOOKS

Carson, Rachel:
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1962.
JEL: Rachel Carson stands, like Marx, as the major influence behind revolution, this time in environmental thought and action. This seminal book must be included in any further reading on Gaia and the environment.

Holland, H. D.;
The Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere and the Oceans.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
JEL: For a straightforward account of the evolution of the Earh from a geologist's viewpoint, there is no better book.

Jantsch, Erich;
The Self-Organizing Universe.
Oxford: Pergamon, 1980.
JEL: For an understanding of scientists' views of the Universe, perhaps the best summary is in this.

Lotka, Alfred;
Elements of Physical Biology.
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1925.
JEL: Those interested in geophysiological theory should read this classic.

Lovelock, James;
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
NB: Begun in 1976.

Lovelock, James;
The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth.
New York: Norton, 1988.
NB: Daisyworld, pp. 35-41; ch. 3.

Lovelock, James;
Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet.
New York: Harmony Books, 1991.
NB: Daisyworld, pp. 62-72.

Margulis, L.;
Early Life.
Boston: Science Books International, 1982.
JEL: Provides a beautiful and clearly written account of the known and the conjectured of ht5e obscure period before and after life began, including a picture of the evolution of nascent life.

Margulis, L.;
Symbiosis in Cell Evolution.
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1981.
JEL: For those interested in the evolution of eukaryotic cells, there is a detailed account here.

Margulis, L. and D. Sagan;
Microcosmos.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
London: Allan and Unwin, 1987.
JEL: A splendid account of the four eons of evolution from our microbial ancestors.

Margulis, L. and D. Sagan;
A Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1959/1988.

Marurana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela;
The Tree of Knowledge.
Boston: New Sciences Library, 1987.
JEL: Autopoiesis, the organization of living things, and many other
concetps helpful for understanding life as a process, are described.

Yermolaev, M. M.;
An Introduction to Physical Geography.
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NB: Mentions Seuss and Vernadsky concept of biosphere.

ARTICLES

Carter, R. N., and S. D. Prince;
Epidemiological models used to explain biogeographical distribution limits.
Nature 293 (1981) 644-645.

Dubos, Rene;
Symbiosis between Earth and humankind;
Science 193 (1976) 459.

Lovelock, J. E.;
Gaia as seen through the atmosphere,
Atmospheric Environment 6 (1972) 579-580.
NB: First mention of the gaia hypothesis.

Lovelock, J. E.;
Methyl chloroform in the troposphere as an indicator of radical abundance,
Nature 267 (1977) 32.

Lovelock, J. E.;
Gaia as seen through the atmosphere,
In: Biomineralization and Biological Metal Accumulation, 
P. Westbroek and E. W. de Jong, eds.
Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982, 15-25.
NB: Discussion of daisy world with equations.

Lovelock, James E.,
Geophysiology: A new look at earth science.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 67(4) (April, 1986) 392-397.
NB: discussion of daisyworld.

Lovelock, James E.,
A numerical model for biodiversity,
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B 338 (1992) 383-391.

Lovelock, J. E., and S. R. Epton;
The quest for Gaia.
New Scientist 6 (Feb. 1975).

Lovelock, J. E., and L. Margulis;
Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biophere: the Gaia hypothesis;
Tellus 26 (1974) 1-10.

Lovelock, J. E., and L. Margulis;
Biological modulation of the Earth's atmosphere,
Icarus 21 (1974) 471.

Lovelock, J. E., and L. Margulis;
Homeostatic tendencies of the earth's atmosphere,
Oricgin of Life 1 (1974) 12-22.

Lovelock, J. E., and A. J. Watson;
The regulation of carbon dioxide and climate: Gaia or geochemistry,
Planet Space Science 30 (1982) 795-802.

Sellers, Ann and A. J. Meadows;
Long-term variations in the albedo and surface temperature of the Earth;
Nature 254 (1975) 44.

Vernadsky, V.;
The biosphere and the noosphere,
Amer. Sci.33 (1945) 1-12.

Watson, Andrew J., and James E. Lovelock;
Biological homeostasis of the global environment: the parable of Daisyworld,
Tellus 35B (1983) 284-289.

Watson, A. J., J. E. Lovelock, and L. Margulis,
Methanogenesis, fires and the regulation of atmospheric oxygen;
BioSystems 10 (1978) 293-298.

Xubin Zeng, R. A. Pielke, and R. Eykholt;
Chaos in daisyworld,
Tellus 42B (1990) 309-318.