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'''Gaia''' is a mythological Greek goddess/personification of the [[Earth]].
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'''Gaia''' is the goddess/personification of the [[Earth]] in [[Greek]] [[mythology]].  She bore and then married [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] and gave birth to the race of the [[Titans]].
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Gaia is also an English word defined as a hypothesis that living and nonliving components of eart function as a single system.
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'''Gaia''' in modern usage is the English word defined as a [[hypothesis]] that living and nonliving components of earth function as a single system. The term was chosen because the Greek goddess Gaia is the living earth.
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[[Category:Greek Mythology]]
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