He is most famous for popularising the controversial Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a superorganism.

It has led to an interesting misunderstanding about Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, in which 'life-like' is extended to intelligence and consciousness.

First of all, there is no "science" that can prove or disprove the Gaia hypothesis, so far as I can see.

James Lovelock is the 94 year old scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis, which claims that the earth is a self regulating, single organism.

This notion was advanced by the biologists James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the 1970s and is referred to as the Gaia hypothesis.