Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors

Science & Math

SAGAN, DORION

Margulis, Lynn

Biological Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Illustrated Five Kingdoms: A Guide to the Diversity of Life on Earth

The Illustrated Five Kingdoms: A Guide to the Diversity of Life on Earth

Dolan, Michael

Schwartz, Karlene V.

Harpercollins College Div

Illuminates the crucial functions of the microbe, including cleaning the air, fertilizing soil, producing medicine, and manufacturing food.

The Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World

Harcourt

The Microcosmos Coloring Book

Lyons, Christie

Reference

A distinguished microbiologist explains the importance of the symbiosis - where different organisms contribute to each other's support - and how this is changing our view of life on Earth. Lynn Margulis is an ardent supporter of the Gaia hypothesis: the idea that due to the finely balanced interdependence of all life forms, the planet functions as a single , giant cell. Margulis argues that no organism is an island and that all are linked to each other. The Symbiotic Planet traces the evolution of planet earth from the origins of life and of sex to the emergence of 'hyperseas' and eerie future she describes for humanity.

Symbiotic Planet a New Look At Evolution

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

A fascinating and detailed examination of the evolution—and occasional devolution—of sexuality in microorganisms and more complex forms of life. Margulis and Sagan trace sex from its inauspicious beginnings in bacteria threatened by ultraviolet radiation to its intimate relation with the origin of mitotic division of nucleated cells. The origin of meiotic sex through cannibalism followed by centriole reproductive tardiness and the connection of cell symbiosis to sex and differentiation are explored. “The authors have not only given us a new and exiting scenario for the evolution of sex, but have also provided us with critical ways in which we can test their hypotheses. . . . This is a stimulating book that is sure to invoke criticism and discussion; I strongly recommend it.”—Symbiosis “The book is well organized and well written, leading the reader from one thought to another almost effortlessly. Background information is presented to aid those of us who are not experts in this field, and a glossary is appended. The book could be used at all levels of study, from interested undergraduates in general biology though postdoctoral students of genetics and evolution. I recommend this thought-provoking book to you for both your enjoyment and your enlightenment.”—Richard W. Cheney, Jr., Journal of College Science Teaching “This book, undoubtedly controversial, is a thoughtful and original contribution to an important aspect of cellular biology.”—John Langridge

Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (Bio-Origins Series)

Yale University Press

"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

Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Copernicus

"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

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries of evolution--the source of inherited variation that gives rise to new species. Random genetic mutation, long believed to be the main source of variation, is only a marginal factor. As the authors demonstrate in this book, the more important source of speciation, by far, is the acquisition of new genomes by symbiotic merger. The result of thirty years of delving into a vast, mostly arcane literature, this is the first book to go beyond--and reveal the severe limitations of--the "Modern Synthesis" that has dominated evolutionary biology for almost three generations. Lynn Margulis, whom E. O. Wilson called "one of the most successful synthetic thinkers in modern biology," and her co-author Dorion Sagan have written a comprehensive and scientifically supported presentation of a theory that directly challenges the assumptions we hold about the variety of the living world.

Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origins Of Species

Basic Books

How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution, he never formally speculated where it comes from. His successors thought that new species arise from the gradual accumulation of random mutations of DNA. But despite its acceptance in every major textbook, there is no documented instance of it. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan take a radically new approach to this question. They show that speciation events are not, in fact, rare or hard to observe. Genomes are acquired by infection, by feeding, and by other ecological associations, and then inherited. Acquiring Genomes is the first work to integrate and analyze the overwhelming mass of evidence for the role of bacterial and other symbioses in the creation of plant and animal diversity. It provides the most powerful explanation of speciation yet given.

Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors

The Illustrated Five Kingdoms: A Guide to the Diversity of Life on Earth

The Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World

The Microcosmos Coloring Book

Symbiotic Planet a New Look At Evolution

Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination (Bio-Origins Series)

Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution

Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution

Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origins Of Species

Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species