Jonathan Watts relates the extraordinary life of scientist, engineer, Gaia theorist and spy, Englishman James Lovelock.

It's associated with the Gaia Hypothesis developed by James Lovelock. How can we detect these worlds if they're out there? By looking closely at information. A daisy world (DW) is inhabited by two ...

This biography by Jonathan Watts, The Many Lives of James Lovelock ... Dian Hitchcock (rarely mentioned in the story of the Gaia theory, though her input was crucial); microbiologist and theorist ...

In the 1970s, chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis ... Lovelock and Margulis called the idea “the Gaia Hypothesis” — named after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.