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Nature 431, 913 (21 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431913a; Published online 20 October 2004

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Concept Climbing the co-evolution ladder

T. M. Lenton1, H. J. Schellnhuber1 & E. Szathmáry1

  1. T. M. Lenton and H. J. Schellnhuber are in the Tyndall Centre, UK, and the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. E. Szathmáry is at the Collegium Budapest, 2 Szentharomsag utca, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary.

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Co-evolution: Earth history involves tightly entwined transitions of information and the environment, but where is this process heading?

Stanislav Lem's science-fiction masterpiece, Solaris, tells the gripping — and scary — story of a super-intelligent super-organism that has transmuted into a vast ocean covering most of the surface of a distant planet. Thus information-processing (that is, active) life and force-driven (that is, passive) environment have finally merged into a single entity.

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