For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet's only intelligent, self-aware species. But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own ...

-JAMES LOVELOCK, British scientist and creator of the ‘Gaia hypothesis,’ in an interview with MSNBC last week. The 92-year-old scientist has long been a hero to the green movement for his ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — James Lovelock, the British ...

This rigorous biography by journalist Watts (When a Billion Chinese Jump) dives deep into the life of James Lovelock, the scientist famed for proposing the Gaia hypothesis in the 1970s, the idea that ...

This biography by Jonathan Watts, The Many Lives of James Lovelock, could just as well be titled “A Life of the Many James Lovelocks”. Everyone liked one or another James Lovelock. He was widely—too ...

To declare, as Walt Whitman did, “I am large. I contain multitudes,” is fair for a poet. But it poses something of a challenge for a biographer. The life of James Lovelock (pictured), an English ...

In the 1970s, chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis put forth a bold theory: The Earth is a giant living organism. When a mammal is hot, it sweats to cool itself off. If you nick ...

James Lovelock -- founder of the Gaia theory and, arguably, the field of Earth system science -- thinks the world has lost perspective in responding to the new coronavirus, and should focus on a far ...

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