Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lovelock was not the first to argue that earth functions like a giant organism; Scottish geologist James Hutton made the same point in 1785. But Lovelock's formulation is compelling because science now has the tools to explore some of the vast interactions that govern global systems. Although Lovelock first...
Gaia's critics have by no means been silenced. Some dispute the degree to which life-forms stabilize the atmosphere and temper the climate. Others contend that the emergence of oxygen in earth's atmosphere contradicts Gaia because it made the air poisonous for anaerobic creatures of primordial times. Evolutionary...
The forest functions like a delicately balanced organism that recycles most of its nutrients and much of its moisture. Wisps of steam float from the top of the endless palette of green as water evaporates off the upper leaves, cooling the trees as they collect the intense sunlight. Air currents...
They seemed to have no difficulty adapting their newspaper's vapid and juvenile writing style into book form. They incessantly refer to the Woodstock Generation as if it were a single organism, with all its parts reacting the same way to events--much as USA Today refers to "the USA...
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)