Climate scientist James Lovelock dies
Influential British scientist James Lovelock, famed for his Gaia hypothesis and pioneering work on climate change, has died at the age of 103, his family announced Wednesday. Responding to the news Mary Archer, chair of the Science Museum Group's board of trustees, described him as "arguably the most important independent scientist of the last century". In the 1970s, Lovelock came up with the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a single, self-regulating super-organism made up of all its life forms, which humans are destroying. The notion was at first ridiculed by his peers but helped to redefine how science perceives the relationship between our inanimate planet and the life it hosts.
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