| Description |
xiii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A Sciencewriters book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-244) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Roald Hoffmann -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Mnemosyne -- 1. Red shoe conundrum / Lynn Margulis -- 2. Truth of my father / Dorion Sagan -- 3. The uncut self / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- pt. 2. Chimera -- 4. Power to the protoctists / Lynn Margulis -- 5. Prejudice and bacterial consciousness / Lynn Margulis -- 6. All for one / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan -- 7. Speculation on speculation / Lynn Margulis -- 8. Spirochetes awake : syphilis and Nietzsche's mad genius / Lynn Margulis -- 9. From Kefir to death / Lynn Margulis -- 10. Welcome to the machine / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 11. The transhumans are coming / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 12. Alien enlightenment : Michael Persinger and the neuropsychology of God / Dorion Sagan -- |
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pt. 2. Eros -- 13. The riddle of sex / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 14. An evolutionary striptease / Dorion Sagan -- 15. Vive la différence / Dorion Sagan -- 16. Candidiasis and the origin of clowns / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- pt. 4. Gaea -- 17. The atmosphere, Gaia's circulatory system / Lynn Margulis and James E. Lovelock -- 18. Gaia and philosophy / Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis -- 19. The global sulfur cycle and Emiliania huxleyi / Dorion Sagan -- 20. Descartes, dualism, and beyond / Dorion Sagan Lynn Margulis and Ricardo Guerrero -- 21. What Narcissus saw : the oceanic "eye" / Dorion Sagan -- 22. The pleasures of change / Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider -- Readings -- Figure and table list -- Index. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Microorganisms -- Evolution.
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Sex (Biology)
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Gaia hypothesis.
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Symbiosis.
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Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996 -- Influence.
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Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.
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Philosophy.
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Science.
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Evolution.
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Microbiology.
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Symbiosis.
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| Added Author |
Sagan, Dorion, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9781933392318 alkaline paper |
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1933392312 alkaline paper |
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