Who Is the Earth‪?‬

Earth is a living being. Follow Life as an entity from the self-organizing of the Solar System, through the first molecular systems and the succession of hosts to the present. The lens of cooperation reveals an entity - call Her Nature, if you like - that has been developing both in cooperative complexity and intelligence through the ages of geologic time. The Gaia Hypothesis is only the beginning. Avoiding long Latin words, while using more than a hundred and fifty illustrations, this is a journey intended for the curious. As we approach our own time the interwoven complexity becomes too broad to grasp with the rational mind. The focus of the book then shifts to the sustainable cultures that are still alive, and to their view of this being, and the importance of growing this awareness in our civilization now.