May 2015 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Science news with a Margulisian/Lovelockian Biospheric perspective and some non–human interest stories.
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Author: James MacAllister
April 2015 Environmental Evolution newsletter
A biospheric perspective of the effect of the origin and evolution of life on Earth. April issue discusses the need to update selected Wikipedia entries and it only took medicine 150 years to convince medicine and science of the importance of microbiomes but they still don’t recognize that not all bacterial symbionts are friendly.
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March 2015 Environmental Evolution newsletter
A scrapbook dedicated to some of the many heroes and friends of the Margulis Lab with links to more resources. Recognition of Lynn’s impact on the rethinking of medicine, biology and evolution that is now taking place. Was Lynn Margulis a spiritual person? What set her apart from other scientists?
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February 2015 Environmental Evolution newsletter
A Gaian-deep time view of Earth history and current events. As Lynn Margulis observed, “Gaia is symbiosis seen from space.” This issue is “the unsocial” and discusses why humans are in no way special to the evolution of the Universe or planet Earth. Childrens’ shows have “peanut galleries” because children like to watch children. Humans […]
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January 2015 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Environmental Evolution news and reviews – Deep Time seen biospherically
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Environmental Evolution newsletter for December 2014
First issue of the Environmental Evolution newsletter with subjects ranging from using ammonia-oxidizing bacteria instead of soap and shampoo to progress on the documentary “Symbiotic Earth – How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and created a scientific revolution”
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Hypersea – Life on Land
Expanding the view of the father of biogeochemistry, Vladimir Vernadsky (The Biosphere), the McMenamins advance a systems view of the colonization of the land through deep time that they term the Hypersea Hypothesis. Like the New Symbiotic Biology and Gaia Theory, Hypersea is a unified worldview that recognizes the terrestrial sea of “animated water” that […]
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Slide 1: Modern Synthesis compared to New Symbiotic Biology/Gaia Theory.
A comparison of key points of the Modern Synthesis compared to the New Symbiotic Biology and Gaia Theory which highlight the radical shift in biology and evolution.
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Slide 2: Modern Synthesis compared to New Symbiotic Biology/Gaia Theory
A comparison of key points of the Modern Synthesis compared to the New Symbiotic Biology/Gaia Theory which highlight the radical shift in biology and evolution.
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Expanding Lynn Margulis’ View: A New Symbiotic Biology Part 2
Scott F. Gilbert, Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and the University of Helsinki, delivers the Ninth Annual Sinauer Associates Distinguished Scientist Lecture on the new “holobiont” model of biology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The holobiont is the organism in community with its persistent symbionts, as in the Human Microbiome Project. This new view […]
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