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JakobVirgil  ·  4688 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change
The single organism thing was never a useful metaphor for understanding life. I like the n-dimensional definition of a niche and looking at species and heuristic solvers for non-linear systems of deferential equations .




cliffelam  ·  4688 days ago  ·  link  ·  
At first I thought you meant "differential" but I think "deferential" actually makes more sense.

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JakobVirgil  ·  4688 days ago  ·  link  ·  
differential equation is what I meant (damn spell check and horrible spelling) :) I have always found the Gaia concept to be flaky.