<human>:  How does James Lovelock’s The Gaia Hypothesis work?
<bot>: The Gaia Hypothesis is a hypothesis that the Earth is a self-regulating system. It was first proposed by James Lovelock in 1979. The Gaia Hypothesis states that the Earth is a self-regulating system, and that life on Earth affects the environment, and in turn, the environment affects life. The Gaia Hypothesis is sometimes called the Gaia theory, the Gaia hypothesis, or the Gaia principle.