Slanted Truths

副标题: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution

ISBN: 9780387949277

出版社: Springer

出版年: 1997-6-20

页数: 368

定价: USD 27.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.