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  1. * Second Chapman Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 19–23 June 2000.

  2. ** This article has been corrected. A huge expansion of vegetation was cited above as having taken place 550 million years ago. The generally accepted date for that expansion is around 400 million years ago.

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Gillon, J. Feedback on Gaia. Nature 406, 685–686 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35021165

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