Hypersea: Life on Land

by Mark A. S. Mcmenamin, Dianna McMenamin

Overview

This text describes the evidence for how life moved from sea to land, beginning more than 400 million years ago, employing the concept of Hypersea which is the idea that the barren land surfaces of the Earth could only have been colonized by multicellular organisms working in concert.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231075312
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/05/1996
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	343
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.81(h) x 0.85(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

What People are Saying About This

Paul Mankiewicz

The Hypersea hypothesis offers a bold and comprehensive description of terrestrial life as an immense upwelling of minerals from hydrosphere and lithosphere.... The hypothesis will open the fields of physiology and evolution to grand questions, but perhaps even better, to the power of experimental and comparative inquiry.

— Paul Mankiewicz, Director, Gaia Institute

Editorial Reviews

Why is life on land such a spectacular success? Because, say Dianna and Mark McMenamin, 450 million years ago life created Hypersea, a vast new ocean of interconnected tissues.

Discover

The whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. Symbiosis is not an amusing sideshow; it is the only show in town. Discovering this, we lose track of who is the host and who the parasite. All notions of biological hierarchy are turned upside down... Truth or engaging diversion, Hypersea is an illuminating way of looking at the biosphere.

New Scientist

This book is a significant advance in holistic biological thinking. It gives us a new view of the biosphere, in which symbiosis and cooperation are as important as predation and competition.

Whole Earth Review

The whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. Symbiosis is not an amusing sideshow; it is the only show in town. Discovering this, we lose track of who is the host and who the parasite. All notions of biological hierarchy are turned upside down... Truth or engaging diversion, Hypersea is an illuminating way of looking at the biosphere.

New Scientist