Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution

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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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"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

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780387949277
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
  • Publication date: 8/1/1997
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 6.46 (w) x 9.67 (h) x 1.27 (d)

Table of Contents

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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