Geoscience Education in the Mountain State:
	CATS Earth Science Connections III
	Environmental Geology Telecourse

Weekly Course Notes: September 10, 2001 (Show 1)

General Course Information
CATS Earth Science Connections III--Environmental Geology
Geology 493J
Section 7CA
CRN 85820
Credit 0-3 hours

Field Trip

• North
  November 3 - 4, 2001
  Saturday - Sunday
  12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

• South
  November 17 - 18, 2001
  Saturday - Sunday
  12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

WVU Registration Questions?
Michelle McCabe
1-800-253-2762, Extension 1

Making Connections:
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
Lynn Margulis
0-465-07272-0

Topics:

• Serial Endosymbiosis Theory (SET)
• Gaia
• Short Autobiographical Sketch

Gaia
Gaia IS:

• the Greek term for "mother earth"
• has been also called geophysiology
• the belief that the earth is a sum of all planetary life
• the understanding that all life interacts
• the interaction of life that results in what is termed a "superorganism"
• the recoginition that because of this life the earth's fluids are not in equilibrium
• the planet is self-regulatory creating new environments which select for new organisms

• pseudoscience
• a call to return to the "goddess"
• a hypothesis which claims the earth is an organism
• a product of humanity

Dr. Robert Behling (rbehling@wvu.edu)

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