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Intellectually precocious, she graduated with a bachelors degree from the university of chicago in 1957. Dorion sagan born 1959 is an american author, essayist, fiction writer, and theorist from madison, wisconsin. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Microcosmos tells the story of life on earth from its origins down to the present, with a focus on what stephen jay gould calls the modal bacter, on the central. She proposes that the ancestors of eukaryote cells were symbiotic consortiums of prokaryote cells with one or more species endosymbionts being involved. He has written and coauthored books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, including cosmic apprentice, cracking the aging code, and lynn margulis. Microcosmos by lynn margulis, dorion sagan waterstones. Lynn margulis and dorion sagan have put it all together, literally, in this extraordinary book, which is unlike any treatment. Top 14 lynn margulis quotes author of microcosmos the american evolutionary theorist. I greatly admire lynn margulis s sheer courage and stamina in sticking by the endosymbiosis theory, and carrying it through from being an unorthodoxy to an orthodoxy. Lynn margulis born march 15, 1938 is an american biologist and university professor in the department of geosciences at the university of massachusetts amherst. That preface suggests that this was intended to counter ecological arrogance and. She developed the symbiotic theory, which states that bacteria played a major role in the development of living cells.
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