Lynn Margulis, and her son, the writer Dorion Sagan, here present a selection from their many essays that have been published. Margulis's proposal that eukaryotic cells (the cells of all multicellular animals and plants) are made up of symbiotic unions of more primitive cells was at first widely derided but is now mainstream science. She has described the previously unrecognized role microbial life plays in the maintenance of all life on earth. And she is, with James Lovelock, one of the founders of Gaia theory. In these essays, one can see how these apparently unrelated interests combine into a single, coherent scientific world-view about the natural tendency of living systems to form complex interactive communities.
- ISBN10 0387949275
- ISBN13 9780387949277
- Publish Date 20 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Edition 1997 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 391
- Language English