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.
Margulis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, received the prestigious National Medal of Science in 1999, and her papers are permanently archived at the Library of Congress. Less than a month before her untimely death, Margulis was named one of the twenty most influential scientists alive – one of only two women on this list, which include such scientists as Stephen Hawking, James Watson, and Jane Goodall.
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Indomitable Lynn / Dorion Sagan
Tale of tales / Jorge Wagensberg
Erudition / Moselio Schaechter
As above, so below / Andre Khalil
On Lynn from a close friend and colleague / James Lovelock
Gaia is not an organism : scenes from the early scientific collaboration between Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock / Bruce Clarke
The passionate Lynn Margulis / Niles Eldredge
Lynn Margulis and Stephen Jay Gould / Michael F. Dolan
Too fantastic for polite society : a brief history of symbiosis theory / Jan Sapp
Kingdoms and domains : at work on the Linnaean task / Michael J. Chapman
The battle of Balliol / Martin Brasier
Science, music, philosophy : Margulis at Oxford / Denis Noble
Neo-Darwinism and the group selection controversy / Josh Mitteldorf
Sippewissett time slip / Stefan Helmreich
The cultural dimensions of Lynn Margulis’s science / William Irwin Thompson
Lynn Margulis on spirituality and process philosophy / David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb Jr.
A ferocious intelligence / David Abram
Fishermen in the maelstrom : big history, symbiosis, and Lynn Margulis as a modern-day Copernicus / Peter Westbroek
Gaiadelic : Lynn sagan and LSD / Rich Doyle
Two hit, three down – the biggest lie : David Ray Griffin’s work exposing 9/11 / Lynn Margulis
No subject too sacred / Joanna Bybee
Next to Emily Dickinson / Terry Y. Allen
Jokin’ in the girls’ room / Penny Boston
An education / Emily Case
There should be other prizes / David Lenson
With love and squalor / Betsey Dexter Dyer
Despre autor
Dorion Sagan is author of numerous articles and twenty-three books translated into eleven languages, including Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future and Into the Cool, coauthored with Eric D. Schneider. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Wired, The Skeptical Inquirer, Pabular, Smithsonian, The Ecologist, Co-Evolution Quarterly, The Times Higher Education, Omni, Natural History, The Sciences, Cabinet, and Tricycle. He edited Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel, a 2012 collection of writings addressing Margulis’s life and work.
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