Survival of the systems: The power of persistence (Ep 63 Re-release)
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In greek mythology, gaia was the personification of earth and the mother of all life. Gaya's name became well known in the scientific community in the 19 seventies when james lovelock proposed the gaia hypothesis. In a 20 19 paper in trens innycology and evolution four do little high lighted two major hang ups that biologists have with the guya hypothesis. How could selection take place if the best adapted systems weren't contributing disproportionately to future generations? Honourably, and refreshingly, dolittle devotes most of his short paper to explaining why these older arguments made by dackins, by dolittle himself and by many others might
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