Symbiotic Planet
Symbiotic Planet
A new look at evolution
by Lynn Margulis

Author(s)
Lynn Margulis
Publication, year
New York : Basic Books, 1999
Scope
153 Pages, 20 cm.
Carrier
Book
ISBN
9780465072729

Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species 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 Symbiotic Planet, 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.


Keywords
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Location
Cabinet 11C - 4: Antropoceen
Remarks
Includes notes, index