Slanted truths
Subtitle: essays on Gaia, symbiosis, and evolution
By: Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan ; foreword by Philip and Phylis Morrison.
Contributors: Sagan, Dorion, 1959-
Publisher: Copernicus
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Biology.; Gaia hypothesis.; Symbiosis.; Evolution (Biology)
Description: Lynn Margulis, one of the most original and perceptive scientific thinkers of our time, and the writer Dorion Sagan here present a selection from their many essays published in the last decade and a half. This collection includes an extraordinary memoir of Margulis' encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer as well as provocative ideas on Gaia theory, symbiosis, individuality, and the way scientific research is conducted today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-339) and index.