Article
Environmental regulation in a network of simulated microbial ecosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Jul 2008
Williams Hywel T P, Lenton Timothy M
Abstract excerpt
The Earth possesses a number of regulatory feedback mechanisms involving life. In the absence of a population of competing biospheres, it has proved hard to find a robust evolutionary mechanism that would generate environmental regulation. It has been suggested that regulation must require altruistic environmental alterations by organisms and, therefore, would be evolutionarily unstable. This need not be the case...
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