Biospheric Evolution Is Coarsely Deterministic
Starting with the origin of life, I argue that the general pattern of the tightly coupled evolution of biota and climate on Earth has been the very probable outcome from a relatively small number of possible histories at the macroscale, given the same initial conditions. Thus, the evolution of the b...
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| Language: | English |
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International Big History Association
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Big History |
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| Online Access: | https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/2572 |