Royal Society’s “New Trends in Biological Evolution” – A Bloodless Revolution
In London from 7-9 November 2016, …a groundbreaking summit at the British Royal Society. of...
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Author: James MacAllister
September 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Discussion of the history and philosophy of systems thinking from Alexander von Humboldt to Lynn...
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Developmental Biology Film Series
The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s official channel devoted to the National Science...
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Holism and Evolution
J. C. Smuts coined the term “holism” ( from holo-‘whole’ + -ism) in the 1920s to designate the tendency in nature to produce organized “wholes” (bodies or organisms) from the ordered grouping of units. Holism is the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the […]
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June 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Newsletter reviews Symbiogenetics, the 4th edition of Lynn Margulis’s magnum opus (Symbiosis...
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Deep Time Walk
The Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km walking audio history of life. This unfolding takes you from 4.6bn years ago to the present day, with each metre representing one million years. As you walk you begin to recognise the long geological processes and self-regulating patterns that have produced the conditions for the evolution of life. […]
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March 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Various news articles and links. A discussion of the context and background for Lynn...
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January 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
This issue deals with the origins of long history of almost all ideas, the fallacy of “arguments from authority,” the framing of ideas as “extraordinary”, Lynn Margulis’s “math of biology 1 + 1 = 1,” misappropriation of the scientific term “symbiogenesis” in John Archibald’s history of the current rethinking biology in terms of collaborating consortia, […]
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The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology
From the publisher: “The Living Universe is a comprehensive, historically nuanced study of...
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Bacteria to Biosphere – Gaia is symbiosis seen from space
A presentation to the European Society for Literature,Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) at their 2015 meeting on “Scale” in Malta. The presentation discusses the new paradigms in biology and evolution that have provided new support for the importance of the microcosmos, symbiosis, Gaia theory, and the work of Martin Brasier on his discovery of “the […]
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