An analogy with giant redwoods which are nearly 99% dead matter make it more believable and evidence showing that marine phytoplankton emitting cloud-condensation nuclei might influence weather also supports it.
The ancestry of this scientific theory has been traced to Plato's Timaeus, Teilhard de Chardin's theory of the noosphere, and Hutton's idea of a "superorganism." An analogy with giant redwoods which are nearly 99% dead matter make it more believable and evidence showing that marine phytoplankton emitting cloud-condensation nuclei might influence weather also supports it. However the best evidence for it is still the stability of earth's atmospheric gases. It was first proposed in 1979 book subtitled A New Look at Life on Earth written by James Lovelock. FTP name this theory which holds that that the earth is a survival-conscious, self-regulating, living entity.
The ancestry of this scientific theory has been traced to Plato's Timaeus, Teilhard de Chardin's theory of the noosphere, and Hutton's idea of a "superorganism."
{Gaia} Hypothesis.