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Earth, Life, and System - Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet (Hardcover)
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Earth, Life, and System - Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet (Hardcover)
Series: Meaning Systems
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Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn
Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across
a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology,
evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems
theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies,
and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that
animated Margulis's science, the essays within take up, variously,
astrobiology and the origin of life, ecology and symbiosis from the
microbial to the planetary scale, the coupled interactions of
earthly environments and evolving life in Gaia theory and earth
system science, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas
to cultural and creative productions. Dorion Sagan acquaints the
reader with salient issues in Lynn Margulis's scientific work, the
controversies they raised, and the vocabulary necessary to follow
the arguments. Sankar Chatterjee synthesizes several strands of
current theory for the origin of life on earth. James Strick tells
the intertwined origin stories of James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis
and Margulis's serial endosymbiosis theory. Jan Sapp explores the
distinct phylogenetic visions of Margulis and Carl Woese. Susan
Squier examines the epigenetics of embryologist and developmental
biologist C. H. Waddington. Bruce Clarke studies the convergence of
ecosystem ecology, systems theory, and science fiction between the
1960s and the 1980s. James Shapiro discusses the genome evolution
that results not from random changes but rather from active cell
processes. Susan Oyama shows how the concept of development
balances an over-emphasis on genetic coding and other deterministic
schemas. Christopher Witmore studies the ways in which a
concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, mixes up natural
resources, animal lives, and human appetites. And Peter Westbroek
brings the insights of earth system science toward a new worldview
essential for a proper response to global change.
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