Gaia and natural selection

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6692, 1998, Pages 439-447

  Lenton, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSPHERE; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWTH; NATURAL SELECTION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROCK; SOLAR ENERGY;

EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FEEDBACK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032581551     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28792     Document Type: Review

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