Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel

by Dorion Sagan

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Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist whose intellectual energy and interests knew no bounds. Best known for her work on the origins of eukaryotic cells, the Gaia hypothesis, and symbiogenesis as a driving force in evolution, her work has forever changed the way we understand life on Earth. When Margulis passed away in 2011, she left behind a groundbreaking scientific legacy that spanned decades. In this collection, Dorion Sagan, Margulis's son and longtime collaborator, gathers together the voices of friends and colleagues to remark on her life and legacy, in essays that cover her early collaboration with James Lovelock, her fearless face-off with Richard Dawkins during the so-called 'Battle of Balliol' at Oxford, the intrepid application of her scientific mind to the insistence that 9/11 was a false-flag operation, her affinity for Emily Dickinson, and more.
  • ISBN10 1603584463
  • ISBN13 9781603584463
  • Publish Date 19 October 2012
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 May 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English