Spreading the power: comment on "Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth" by A. Kleidon.

Phys Life Rev

Planetary Science Institute, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia.

Published: December 2010

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