RE: Are Humans Gaia's Immune System Against Impacts?

[Reeve, Jack W.]

Title: RE: Are Humans Gaia's Immune System Against Impacts?

Most of you early life nuts likely already have read it, but to all others, check out Stephen J. Gould's "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".  Within it are myriad astonishing creatures from the earliest murky seas.  It illustrates how many ancient evolutionary lineages, whatever the reasons, just plain didn't make it.   Jack   -----Original Message----- From: Gary McMurtry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday 21 August 2002 14:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Are Humans Gaia's Immune System Against Impacts?   I have to agree mightily with Tom Green's thoughts on Gaia and the human "condition".  To think that Life cares about mass extinctions is to not understand Life at all.  Gaia smells of the "just so" arguments of the "Rare Earth"ers and the various spiritualist musings.   Here's a book recommendation for this list group: 'Life Everywhere: the Maverick Science of Astrobiology" by David Darling, Basic Books, 2001.  Well researched, well written, well done.   Gary