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A new chapter of human evolution
Seven of nine planetary boundaries have been crossed. A new way of inhabiting the Earth together is becoming a biological necessity. Homo biospheris is an attempt to answer this imperative.
01 · A species at the threshold
For the first time in its history, one species has simultaneously pushed the great systems of the Earth beyond their limits. The crisis is systemic, touching all the major planetary boundaries at once.
Four of the key ones:
Technical solutions alone will not be sufficient. The shift needs to happen at a deeper level, in the psychic and organizational structures through which humanity positions itself in relation to the living world. The transition is therefore, above all, a question of identity.
Evolutionary biology, complexity theory, and the study of major transitions in the organization of life over 3.8 billion years.
Research by for his saga Blue Revolution, which chronicles how the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo biospheris could unfold within three years.
The ecological transition will become irresistible the moment humanity understands what it is capable of becoming: Homo biospheris.
This leap is not without precedent. Evolution has already achieved it twice.
02 · The first leap
Around 1.6 billion years ago, individual cells living in isolation made one of the most improbable transitions in the history of life. They began to cooperate and differentiate, forming a larger being with an identity, a consciousness and projects of its own.
Your 30 trillion cells cooperate constantly to produce a singular consciousness with intentions, memories, and desires entirely beyond their individual comprehension.
03 · The second leap
When the interactions between all species gave rise to the Biosphere, no single species had planned it or could perceive it from outside. Biospheric science is still young, but makes one thing clear: the Earth functions as a living system in its own right.
Humanity is still at the threshold of understanding what it truly means to live inside a living planet.
04 · The third leap
The planetary limits are a signal: a new leap in complexity has become necessary, driven by the same evolutionary force that pushed cells to cooperate and wove nine million species into one living system. That force is now pressing on humanity.
Each person remains fully themselves. What changes is the collective dimension: humanity capable, for the first time, of acting as a single planetary entity.
05 · Geophysiology
Long before the appearance of humanity, the nine million species sharing the Earth had already organized themselves into functional roles at a planetary scale. James Lovelock named this science geophysiology: the Biosphere operating like a living organism, regulating its own temperature, chemistry, and cycles.
The human liver alone fulfills around fifteen major physiological functions.
The same logic applies at the planetary scale. Gaia's organs already exist, and they predate humanity by billions of years.
Geophysiology · interactive map
Rotate the globe to explore the four functional systems of the Biosphere. Click a region to learn more.
06 · The ten missions
An organ differs from ordinary tissue by having a set of defined functions. In Jean-Pierre Goux's novel La Clef des songes, the ten missions of Homo biospheris were developed through an unprecedented exercise in collective intelligence, drawing on hundreds of millions of contributions from across humanity. The same process would need to happen in reality.
In the meantime, here are those presented in the novel. Each mission corresponds to a biological function that enriches the resilience, complexity, and beauty of Gaia.
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