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"Lynn Margulis is one of the most successful synthetic thinkers in modern biology. This collection of her work, enhanced by essays co-authored with Dorion Sagan, is a welcome introduction to the full breadth of her many contributions." EDWARD O. WILSON, AUTHOR OF THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE "An important contribution to the history of the 20th century. Read it and you will taste the flavor of real science." JAMES LOVELOCK, AUTHOR OF GAIA: A NEW LOOK AT LIFE ON EARTH "Truly inspirational and of fundamental importance. This thoughtful series of essays on some of the largest questions concerning the nature of life on earth deserves careful study."PETER RAVEN, MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

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	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Sunday with J. Robert Oppenheimer	5
2	The Red Shoe Dilemma	29
3	Marriage of Convenience	35
4	Swimming Against the Current	47
5	The Uncut Self	59
6	Power to the Protoctists	75
7	From Kefir to Death	83
8	Kingdom Animalia: The Zoological Malaise from a Microbial Perspective	91
9	Speculation on Speculation	113
10	The Atmosphere as Circulatory System of the Biosphere - The Gaia Hypothesis	127
11	Gaia and Philosophy	145
12	The Global Sulfur Cycle and Emiliania Huxleyi	159
13	Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond	171
14	What Narcissus Saw: The Oceanic "Eye"	185
15	A Good Four-Letter Word	201
16	The Biota and Gaia: One Hundred Fifty Years of Support for Environmental Sciences	207
17	Gaia and the Colonization of Mars	221
18	Futures	235
19	A Pox Called Man	247
20	Big Trouble in Biology: Physiological Autopoiesis versus Mechanistic neo-Darwinism	265
21	The Riddle of Sex	283
22	Words as Battle Cries - Symbiogenesis and the New Field of Endocytobiology	295
23	Science Education, USA: Not Science, Not Yet Education	307
24	An Epistemiological Afterword	317
	References	321
	Professional Literature on Gaia	335
	Popular Literature on Gaia	341
	Contributors	345
	Glossary	347
	Index	355

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