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HYPOTHESIS STRUCTURE [2 records]

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Record 1 2005-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research
DEF

A searching for new relations within a total structure of thought and understanding(for example, a theory of learning) and for a correlation of discoveries in a way that is in agreement with the total of observed properties or behaviors; an assumed relation stated as hypothesis gives specificity and direction to the search.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche scientifique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Investigación científica
DEF

Forma de adquirir o confirmar conocimientos respecto al hecho o sustancia investigados, mediante un método preciso que produce resultados confiables y reproducibles.

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Record 2 2002-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Air Pollution
CONT

To James Lovelock... the planet itself is a life-form created by all this interlinking feedback. Lovelock has taken the notion of feedback and coevolution to dizzying heights. According to his Gaia hypothesis, the approximately four billion species on earth are coevolutionarily coordinated in such a way that our planet itself is, in effect, an autopoietic structure, what Lewis Thomas calls a giant "single cell".

OBS

Lovelock named his theory of the living, evolving, self-regulating, self-organizing life form earth "Gaia" after the ancient Greek goddess of earth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évolution (Biologie)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Hypothèse de James E. Lovelock selon laquelle la Terre (Gaïa) réagirait elle-même, à la façon d'un être animé, selon ses propres moyens, aux différents déséquilibres écologiques naturels ou anthropiques auxquels elle est soumise.

OBS

Lovelock est aussi celui qui a mis au point un capteur de chlorofluorocarbures, le CFC sniffer, vers 1930.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Evolución (Biología)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Contaminación del aire
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