What Does Gaia Hypothesis Mean?
The Gaia hypothesis is the theory put forward by James Lovelock that proposes the planet is a vast self-regulating organism and that all life on our planet as a collective defines and regulates the conditions that are necessary for that life to continue, and that all life contributes to its own survival as a whole. This is contrasted with the idea that life is simply a large collection of biomechanical processes.