{"title":"Lynn Margulis","description":"Lynn Margulis, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1983. She is best known for her pathbreaking work on the bacterial origins of cell organelles and for her collaboration with James Lovelock on Gaia theory.","products":[{"product_id":"gaia-and-philosophy-paperback","title":"Gaia and Philosophy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment. Gaia describes a living Earth: a body in the form of a planet. Fusing science, mathematics, philosophy, ecology and mythology, *Gaia and Philosophy*, with a new introduction by Dorion Sagan, challenges Western anthropocentrism to propose a symbiotic planet. In its striking philosophical conclusion, the revolutionary Gaia paradigm holds important implications not only for understanding life's past but for shaping its future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376881565919,"sku":"9781739371760","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/l_6r4Qnc5G9781739371760.webp?v=1789228851"},{"product_id":"symbiotic-planet-a-new-look-at-evolution-paperback","title":"Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited variations are naturally selected, but they leave unanswered how variant organisms come to be in the first place. In \u003ci\u003eSymbiotic Planet, \u003c\/i\u003e renowned scientist Lynn Margulis shows that symbiosis, which simply means members of different species living in physical contact with each other, is crucial to the origins of evolutionary novelty. Ranging from bacteria, the smallest kinds of life, to the largest -- the living Earth itself -- Margulis explains the symbiotic origins of many of evolution's most important innovations. The very cells we're made of started as symbiotic unions of different kinds of bacteria. Sex -- and its inevitable corollary, death -- arose when failed attempts at cannibalism resulted in seasonally repeated mergers of some of our tiniest ancestors. Dry land became forested only after symbioses of algae and fungi evolved into plants. Since all living things are bathed by the same waters and atmosphere, all the inhabitants of Earth belong to a symbiotic union. Gaia, the finely tuned largest ecosystem of the Earth's surface, is just symbiosis as seen from space. Along the way, Margulis describes her initiation into the world of science and the early steps in the present revolution in evolutionary biology; the importance of species classification for how we think about the living world; and the way \"academic apartheid\" can block scientific advancement. Written with enthusiasm and authority, this is a book that could change the way you view our living Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379113427167,"sku":"9780465072729","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vifKL7ZPak9780465072729.webp?v=1789268612"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lynn-margulis.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}