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Gaia hypothesis in American English
the theory that the earth is a group of interdependent organisms and environmental systems that function as a single, self-regulating organism
noun: a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model

Gaia hypothesis in British English
noun: the theory, formulated by English scientist James Lovelock (born 1919), that the earth and everything on it constitutes a single self-regulating living entity

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