Slanted Truths

by Morrison, P.; Margulis, Lynn; Morrison, Philip; Sagan, Dorion

• ISBN13: 9780387987729
• ISBN10: 038798772X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-03-14
• Publisher: Copernicus Books

Summary

Lynn Margulis, one of the most original and perceptive scientific thinkers of our time, and the writer Dorion Sagan present here a selection from their many essays published in the last decade and a half. This collection includes some of their most provocative ideas on Gaia theory, symbiosis, individuality, and the way scientific research is conducted today.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sunday with J. Robert Oppenheimer	p. 5
The Red Shoe Dilemma	p. 29
Marriage of Convenience	p. 35
Swimming Against the Current	p. 47
The Uncut Self	p. 59
Power to the Protoctists	p. 75
From Kefir to Death	p. 83
Kingdom Animalia: The Zoological Malaise from a Microbial Perspective	p. 91
Speculation on Speculation	p. 113
The Atmosphere as Circulatory System of the Biosphere - The Gaia Hypothesis	p. 127
Gaia and Philosophy	p. 145
The Global Sulfur Cycle and Emiliania Huxleyi	p. 159
Descartes, Dualism, and Beyond	p. 171
What Narcissus Saw: The Oceanic "Eye"	p. 185
A Good Four-Letter Word	p. 201
The Biota and Gaia: One Hundred Fifty Years of Support for Environmental Sciences	p. 207
Gaia and the Colonization of Mars	p. 221
Futures	p. 235
A Pox Called Man	p. 247
Big Trouble in Biology: Physiological Autopoiesis versus Mechanistic neo-Darwinism	p. 265
The Riddle of Sex	p. 283
Words as Battle Cries - Symbiogenesis and the New Field of Endocytobiology	p. 295
Science Education, USA: Not Science, Not Yet Education	p. 307
An Epistemiological Afterword	p. 317
References	p. 321
Professional Literature on Gaia	p. 335
Popular Literature on Gaia	p. 341
Contributors	p. 345
Glossary	p. 347
Index	p. 355
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