Dorion Sagan

**Dorion Sagan,** (1959) Amerikalı yazar ve teorisyendir. *Cosmic Apprentice*, *Cracking the Aging Code ve Lynn Margulis: The Life* ve *Legacy of a Scientific Rebel* dahil olmak üzere kültür, evrim ve bilim tarihi ve felsefesi üzerine kitaplar yazmış ve ortak yazarlardan biridir. Eric D. Schneider ile birlikte yazdığı *Into the Cool* adlı kitabı, dengesizlik termodinamiği ve yaşam arasındaki ilişki hakkındadır.

## Kişisel yaşamı
Sagan, gök bilimci Carl Sagan ve biyolog Lynn Margulis'in oğludur. 4 kardeşi vardır. Üvey kardeşi Nick Sagan bilimkurgu yazarıdır.

## Bibliyografya

### Kitaplar

* *Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science* (2013) 
* *Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel* (2012, Sciencewriters Books) 
* *Death and Sex* (two-in-one book with Tyler Volk, 2009) 
* *Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth* (1990) 
* *Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future* (2007) 
* *Cooking with Jesus: From the Primal Brew to the Last Brunch* (2001) 
* *The Sciences of Avatar* (2010) 

**Lynn Margulis ile birlikte**
* *Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors* (1986) 
* *Origins of Sex : Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination* (1986) 
* *Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World* (1988) 
* *Biospheres from Earth to Space*  (1989)
* *Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality*  (1991)
* *What Is Sex?*  (1995)
* *What Is Life?* (1995) 
* *Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution* (1997)
* *Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species* (2002) 
* *Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature* (2007) 

**Eric D. Schneider ile birlikte**
* *Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life* (2005) 

**Diğerleri ile birlikte**
* *Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young* (2016 - with Josh Mitteldorf)
* *[[Up from Dragons|Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence]]* (2002 - with John Skoyles)
* *Within the Stone: Nature's Abstract Rock Art* (2004 - partial text to book of photographs by Bill Atkinson)
* *Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism* (2006 - foreword to book by David Mills)
* *Darwin's Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature* (2011 - with Simon G Powell)

### Makaleler

* "Möbius Trip: The Technosphere and Our Science Fiction Reality" *Technosphere Magazine* (2017)
* "Metametazoa: Biology and Multiplicity" (1992 - In *Incorporations: Fragments for a History of the Human Body*, Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, editors, Zone, pp.&nbsp;362–385)
* "Partial closure: Dorion Sagan reflects on Carl" (1997 - *[[Whole Earth Review|Whole Earth]]*, summer, pp.&nbsp;34–37)
* "Gender Specifics: Why Women Aren't Men" (1998 - *The New York Times* https://www.nytimes.com/specials/women/nyt98/21saga.html )
* "The Beast with Five Genomes"  (2001 - with Lynn Margulis - *[[Natural History (dergi)|Natural History]]* June, pp.&nbsp;38–41)
* "The Postman Already Always Rings Twice: Fragments for an Understanding of the Future"  (2004 **, pp.&nbsp;23–27)
* "Gradient-Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life"  (2004 - with Jessica H. Whiteside. In *Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century* MIT Press)
* "A Brief History of Sex" (2007 - *[[Cosmos (dergi)|Cosmos]]* [Australia], June/July, pp.&nbsp;50–55)
* "Evolution, Complexity, and Energy Flow" (2008 - *Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution* John B. Cobb Jr., Editor, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pp.&nbsp;145–156)
* "What is the Cultural Relevance of Bacteria?" (2009 - Sputnik Observatory) https://web.archive.org/web/20090705095502/http://blog.sptnk.org/2009/06/30/what-is-the-cultural-relevance-of-bacteria-2/

### Kısa hikâyeler

* "The Tchaikovsky Dream Continuum" *Cabinet*, Issue 54 The Accident (Summer 2014)
* "The New Age Witch" (1993) *After Hours*, #19, summer, pp.&nbsp;36–45
* "Love’s Strangers" (2006) *Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review*, summer, Vol. 1, Issue 3, "Flesh," pp.&nbsp;3–10
* "Semi-Naked" (2006) *Meat for Tea: The Northampton Review*, winter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, "Gristle," pp.&nbsp;5–24

## Ödüller
*  Silent Mora Ring 122 International Brotherhood of Magicians – 1974 
*  EdPress Excellence in Educational Journalism Award, Nonprofit National – 1986 
*  Humana Scholarship – Centre College Danville, Kentucky (2003)
*  Lindisfarne Fellowship – Lindisfarne (2008 –)
*  Advisory Board – Sputnik Inc (2009 –)

## Kaynakça

## Dış bağlantılar

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* Cabinet Magazine essays 
* Into the Cool website (as archived in 2014)
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* Sputnik Observatory Interviews 
* Biography page, The 
* Online audio interview with Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
* "Second Nature" (article) 
* Letters (discussing "Turing Gaia," the natural basis of teleology)  to  “Wild Side” column, topic “Heavy Weather,” *The New York Times*