The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon is a beautifully illustrated storybook about the symbiotic...
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Category: Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking
In Search Of Truth. In Memory of Lynn Margulis
from Vimeo “A short film documentary in remembrance of the biologist who changed our point...
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
from the publisher “Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view […]
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
from the publisher “‘Knowing how we know’ is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience […]
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Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life
from the publisher “The appearance of the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life, and as Martin Brasier shows in Secret Chambers, decoding this puzzle has been a great adventure that has mainly taken place over the last fifty years. Covering the period […]
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
from the publisher “*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own […]
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Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
from the publisher “Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis’s science, the […]
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May 2015 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Science news with a Margulisian/Lovelockian Biospheric perspective and some non–human interest stories.
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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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